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Machine discovery / edited by Jan Żytkow.
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed. 1997.
Published/Created
Dordrecht, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1997]
©1997
Description
1 online resource (IV, 148 p.)
Availability
Available Online
Springer Nature - Springer Book Archive - Springer Behavioral Sciences
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Subject(s)
Computer simulation
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Problem solving
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Editor
Żytkow, Jan M.
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Summary note
Human and machine discovery are gradual problem-solving processes of searching large problem spaces for incompletely defined goal objects. Research on problem solving has usually focused on searching an `instance space' (empirical exploration) and a `hypothesis space' (generation of theories). In scientific discovery, searching must often extend to other spaces as well: spaces of possible problems, of new or improved scientific instruments, of new problem representations, of new concepts, and others. This book focuses especially on the processes for finding new problem representations and new concepts, which are relatively new domains for research on discovery. Scientific discovery has usually been studied as an activity of individual investigators, but these individuals are positioned in a larger social structure of science, being linked by the `blackboard' of open publication (as well as by direct collaboration). Even while an investigator is working alone, the process is strongly influenced by knowledge and skills stored in memory as a result of previous social interactions. In this sense, all research on discovery, including the investigations on individual processes discussed in this book, is social psychology, or even sociology.
Notes
"Reprinted from Foundations of Science Volume 1, No.2, 1995/96."
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
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Description based on print version record.
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English
Contents
Machine Discovery
Comments
Machine Discovery: Replay to Comments
The Process of Discovery
Creating a Discoverer: Autonomous Knowledge Seeking Agent
Varia
Are Dinosaurus Extinct?
Poincaré’s Conventionalism and the Logical Positivists
Biographical Notes
Some facts on AFOS.
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Foundations of science.
ISBN
94-017-2124-6
Doi
10.1007/978-94-017-2124-0
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