Department of Computer Science

Machine Learning Research Group

University of Texas at Austin Artificial Intelligence Lab

Publications: Qualitative Modeling & Diagnosis

Qualitative reasoning (QR) concerns modelling and reasoning about the behavior of physical systems qualitatively rather than numerically. Our work in the area has focused on learning qualitative models from behaviors and using abduction to perform model-based diagnosis of systems using QR.
  1. Qualitative Multiple-Fault Diagnosis of Continuous Dynamic Systems Using Behavioral Modes
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    Siddarth Subramanian and Raymond J. Mooney
    In Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), 965-970, Portland, OR, August 1996.
  2. Qualitative Multiple-Fault Diagnosis of Continuous Dynamic Systems Using Behavioral Modes
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    Siddarth Subramanian
    PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 1995. 128 pages. Also appears as Technical Report AI 95-239.
  3. Multiple-Fault Diagnosis Using General Qualitative Models with Fault Modes
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    Siddarth Subramanian and Raymond J. Mooney
    In Working Notes of the IJCAI-95 Workshop on Engneering Problems for Qualitative Reasoning, Monreal, Quebec, August 1995.
  4. Multiple-Fault Diagnosis Using General Qualitative Models with Fault Modes
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    Siddarth Subramanian and Raymond J. Mooney
    In Working Papers of the Fifth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis, 321-325, New Paltz, NY, October 1994.
  5. Learning Qualitative Models for Systems with Multiple Operating Regions
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    Sowmya Ramachandran, Raymond J. Mooney, and Benjamin J. Kuipers
    In Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Systems, Nara, Japan, 1994.
  6. Automatic Abduction of Qualitative Models
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    Bradley L. Richards, Ina Kraan, and Benjamin J. Kuipers
    In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Systems, 295-301, 1992.