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Preface May1996 marks the tenth anniversary of the first workshopon qualitative reasoning. That f’n’st workshopwashosted by the Qualitative ReasoningGroupof the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Overthe last ten years, the field has grownand stimulated a broad range of research activitities. For a few years, qualitative reasoningwasthe area with the largest numberof submissions to AAAI.Several bookson qualitative reasoning, both in English and Japanese, have been published. Additional workshopson qualitative reasoning are nowregularly held in conjunction with ECAIand IJCAI. During the same ten years, the workshop has also changed its name from the Qualitative Physics workshop, to the International Workshopon Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Systems, and most recently to the International Workshopon Qualitative Reasoning. These namechangesreflect the community’sbroadeninginterest in qualitative reasoning about non-physical domains. This is also the first year that paper submission, reviewing, author notification, and workshopregistration were handled almost entirely by electronic means. Althoughthis turned out to be rather moredifficult than weexpected (the great thing about standards for attaching documentsto email messagesis that there are so manyto choose from), we believe it wasan improvementover paper -- it certainly eliminated the need to handle a large amount of physical mail, and the World Wide Websimplified the task of information dissemination. Despite all those changes, the workshophas retained its original character -- a meeting of a small group of fifty or so researchers to present and discuss the latest developments in the field in an informal and intimate atmosphere. The workshopattracts manyhigh quality papers and continues to engageparticipants in rigorous discussions of the latest workin the field. Thus, it is our greatest pleasure to host the Tenth International Workshopon Qualitative Reasoning at the Stanford Sierra Camp, Fallen Leaf Lake, California. Wewould like to thank the program committee membersfor their effort in reviewing papers and help in planning the workshop. Wewould also like to acknowledge Ms. Grace Smith of the KnowledgeSystems Laboratory as well as the graduate student volunteers for their assistance in preparing the workshop. Financial support for this workshopwas provided by the KnowledgeSystemsLaboratory, the Americal Association for Artificial Intelligence, and the International Joint Conferenceon Artificial Inteligence, Inc. AdamFarquhar and YumiIwasaki (workshop co-chairs) Stanford, California 9 April 1996 ix