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Probabilistic models in qualitative simulation

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Computer Aided Systems Theory — EUROCAST '93 (EUROCAST 1993)

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Qualitative simulation, the main reasoning technique used in qualitative reasoning, necessarily generates spurious solutions [9,

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    Wilfried Grossmann & Hannes Werthner

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Grossmann, W., Werthner, H. (1994). Probabilistic models in qualitative simulation. In: Pichler, F., Moreno Díaz, R. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory — EUROCAST '93. EUROCAST 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 763. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57601-0_60

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