Qualitative futures
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چکیده
ion of state descriptions. It must be possible to abstract the results of an envisionment so that they can be compared with the descriptions of interesting states. This area is in its infancy, but we would expect it to make a significant contribution to system safety and reliability as it becomes better developed.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Knowledge Eng. Review
دوره 21 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006