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The concept of velocity of an object relates an interval of time with the space that this object has travelled in such interval of time. Velocity is always relative: we compare the distance that an object has travelled in a period of time with respect to the position of another object. Although velocity is a quantitative physical concept, we also need a qualitative model of velocity if we want to automatically reason in a human-like way. In this paper, a qualitative model for representing and reasoning with the concept of velocity has been introduced.
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Monferrer, M.T.E., Lobo, F.T. (2002). Qualitative Velocity. In: Escrig, M.T., Toledo, F., Golobardes, E. (eds) Topics in Artificial Intelligence. CCIA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2504. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36079-4_3
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