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Model construction and application presuppose good reasoning methods. The conventional quantitative approaches are often bivalent and/or mathematical in nature. Qualitative methods, in turn, may apply subjective and approximate methods, such as interpretation, but they are based on conventional reasoning approaches. Due to these features, the quantitative models may be too coarse and/or complicated, whereas the qualitative models lack good applications in a computer environment.
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Niskanen, V.A. (2004). Approximate Reasoning. In: Soft Computing Methods in Human Sciences. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 134. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36421-4_5
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