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From: roy@arcsun.UUCP (Roy Masrani)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: qualitative analysis vs qualitative simulation
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Date: Tue, 18-Aug-87 16:49:14 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 18 16:49:14 1987
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Organization: Alberta Research Council, Calgary, Ab.
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Keywords: request for definitions

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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