Book Reviews Qualitative Process Theory Using Linguistic Variables by B r u c e D ' A m b r o s i o Springer-Verlag N e w York (1989) I S B N 0 - - 3 8 7 - - 9 7 1 3 5 - - 1 ; $36.00 R e v i e w e d by: Varol A k m a n D e p a r t m e n t o f C o m p u t e r E n g i n e e r i n g a n d I n f o r m a t i o n Sciences Faculty of Engineenng and Science Bilkent, U n i v e r s i t y Bilkent, 06533 A n k a r a , T u r k e y akman@trbilun.bitnet Introduction Probably, most of the readers of this Bulletin are quite familiar with Forbus's [2] Qualitative process theory which I'll refer to from nowon as QPT. QPTis a popular, satisfactorily sound, and rather complete (do not read the last two words in the logical sense) theory for reasoning about the physical aspects of
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