In this book, a knowledge representation and utilization methodology integrating qualitative reasoning and bond graphs is developed to construct intelligent supervisory control systems. Qualitative reasoning is a powerful model-based reasoning method while bond graphs are a formal modelling language of dynamic systems. Their integration and qualitative reasoning on bond graphs results in a problem-solving approach in artificial intelligence, in which qualitative reasoning is used as the general reasoning strategy and bond graphs are employed as the knowledge representation. A systematic...