[comp.ai] qualitative analysis vs qualitative simulation

roy@arcsun.UUCP (Roy Masrani) (08/18/87)

Hi.  I am wondering if anyone has a good idea of the difference
between qualitative analysis and qualitative simulation.  I have
not done any extensive search on this but it seems that these
terms are typically used interchangably.  

    Perhaps, QA refers to a goal directed process to find
possible reasons (or explanations) for some phenomena, 
whereas QS is a data driven process used to observe the
consequences of making some changes to the system?
Thanks

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