Automatic Semiqualitative Analysis: Application to a Biometallurgical System

The aim of this work is the representation and analysis of semiqualitative models. Their qualitative knowledge is represented by means of qualitative operators and envelope functions. A semiqualitative model is transformed into a family of quantitative models. In this paper the analysis of a model is proposed as a constraint satisfaction problem. Constraint satisfaction is an umbrella term for a variety of techniques of Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines. In this paper attention is focused on intervals consistency techniques. The semiqualitative analysis is automatically made by means of consistency techniques. The presented method is applied to a industrial biometallurgical system in order to show how increase the capacity of production

Artificial Intelligence

Extracting and representing qualitative behaviors of complex systems in phase space