A General Framework for Naming Qualitative Models Based on Intervals

In qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning we can distinguish between comparing and naming magnitudes. In particular, naming qualitative models allow humans to express spatio-temporal concepts such as “That horse is really fast”. In colloquial terms, naming concepts are called relative. In this paper we present a general framework to solve the representation magnitude and a general algorithm to solve the basic step of inference process of qualitative models based on intervals. The general method is based on the definition of two algorithms: the qualitative sum and the qualitative difference.

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