The Eleventh International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning

The Eleventh International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning was held in Cortona, Italy, on 3 to 6 June 1997. Participants included scientists from both qualitative reasoning and quantitative mathematical modeling communities. This article summarizes the significant issues and discussion raised during the workshop. Given the organizational context, an additional goal in our minds in preparing the workshop was to establish a basis for interaction between the qualitative and quantitative communities. To this end, in addition to the presentation of full papers, posters, and short talks, in line with past workshop schedules, we planned invited talks, the focuses of which were problem domains for qualitative reasoning in real-world applications, and a tutorial on system identification.