Qualitative process theory

1984 · Artificial Intelligence · 2,039 citations · 4 from inside this corpus

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What this paper cites, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals	1983	7,580
Structure‐Mapping: A Theoretical Framework for Analogy*	1983	5,087
A FRAMEWORK FOR REPRESENTING KNOWLEDGE	1988	4,554
Strips: A new approach to the application of theorem proving to problem solving	1971	4,090
A logic for default reasoning	1980	3,943

What cites it, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
A fuzzy-logic-based approach to qualitative modeling	1993	2,422
A qualitative physics based on confluences	1984	1,500
The structure-mapping engine: Algorithm and examples	1989	1,451
Qualitative simulation	1986	1,422

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Topics

AI-based Problem Solving and Planning	Computer Science
Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge	Computer Science
Semantic Web and Ontologies	Computer Science

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