{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Qualitative Mathematical Reasoning","authors":[{"name":"Elisha Sacks","slug":"elisha-sacks","given":"Elisha","family":"Sacks","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Qualitative analysis studies the me chanisms with which humans derive the abstract behavior of a complex system from a description of its components and th ei r interconnections, while ignoring unimportant or unknown low - level details. I present a program that analyzes a sys tem by forming and combining mathematiwl descriptions of its s ub -systems . This approach can overcome significant shortcomings in the s:mulation method used by other qu alitative reasoning systems.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/24","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0024.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/24.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/bibtex/24","volume":{"slug":"1985","title":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1985","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/","year":1985,"location":"Los Angeles, California, USA","dates":"","editors":"Aravind Joshi","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Automated Reasoning","track":"Automated Reasoning","number":24,"pages":{"first":137,"last":138},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}