A qualitative modeling and simulation method based on cloud model

Qualitative simulation is effective methods processing incomplete knowledge, how to represent qualitative knowledge and reduce spurious behaviors is its research emphasis. Contraposing the limitations of existing methods representing qualitative knowledge and filtering spurious behaviors, an approach is proposed to qualitatively model and simulate on the basis of normal cloud model. In this research, the cloud numeric characteristics and cloud measurement are introduced into this approach; consequently, it can more accurately assess the qualitative knowledge, and expand the variables expression and quantity space; meanwhile, it is constructed the means of modeling and simulation by adopting more amply portraying the system status, more intuitively transforming status and more accurately filtering spurious behaviors. Furthermore, in simulation algorithm, cloud measurement indices are employed to significantly select the successor status which can not be determined by existing constraint means. The results of simulation example demonstrate that our approach effectively improves the ability to filter spurious behaviors, and it is a feasible method.