W5: Qualitative models for Sustainability
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Qualitative Reasoning is a research area within Artificial Intelligence that focuses on means to articulate and communicate conceptual knowledge such as system structure, causality, the start and end of processes, the assumptions and conditions under which facts are true, qualitative distinct behaviours, etc. Humans continuously reason about the physical world that surrounds them. Understanding how systems behaved in the past and how they may behave in the future is a crucial aspect of human nature. Qualitative Reasoning investigates how this aspect of human intelligence can be automated on computers.
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NaturNet-Redime is a project co-funded by the European Commission within the 6th Framework Program (2002-2006). The general objective of the NaturNet-Redime project is the provision of a web-portal to improve awareness on Sustainable Development. The project develops and demonstrates prototype technology and educational programs towards implementing the European Union's Strategy for Sustainable Development, focussing on environmental management. In this workshop we will invite the partners in the project to present their latest developments on the main themes within the approach taken: software, models and model library, curriculum, and evaluative case studies with stakeholders. In addition we will open the workshop for contributions of researchers and practitioners outside the NaturNet-Redime project who are working with or developing materials along similar dimensions. The main goals of the workshop are to share results, identify problems and opportunities, and to support the development of a user-group on qualitative approaches to environmental management.