Systematic Methods of Scientific Discovery
Papers from the 1995 AAAI Symposium
Raul Valdes-Perez, Program Chair
Technical Report SS-95-03. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
Sample Citation
Simon, Herbert A. . 1995. What Is a Systematic Method of Scientific Discovery?. In Systematic Methods of Scientific Discovery: Papers from the 1995 Spring Symposium, ed. Raul Valdes-Perez, 1-2. Technical Report SS-95-03. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, California.
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Contents
Preface / 1
Raul Valdes-Perez
What is a Systematic Method of Scientific Discovery? / 1
Herbert A. Simon
A Review of Automated Procedures for the Discovery of Causal Relations and the Use of Causal Hypotheses in Prediction / 3
Clark Glymour
Minimal Length Encoding Methods in Molecular Biology / 9
Aleksandar Milosavljevic
Systematic Synthesis Design: the SYNGEN Program / 13
James B. Hendrickson
Informal Qualitative Models: A Systematic Approach to their Generation / 18
Adrian Gordon (University of Paris-Sud, France) and Derek Sleeman and Pete Edwards
Generic Tasks of Scientific Discovery / 23
Raul E. Valdes-Perez
Exploring Alternative Biases Prior to Learning in Scientific Domains / 29
Bruce G. Buchanan and Yongwon Bee
Diagrammatic Representations and Discovery: The Role of Law Encoding Diagrams / 34
Peter C-H. Cheng
A 4-Space Model of Scientific Discovery / 40
Christian Schunn and David Klahr
From Historical Case Studies to Systematic Methods of Discovery / 46
Gerd Grafihoff and Michael May
Commentary / 58
Herbert A. Simon
Theory-Driven Historical Discovery: Boole’s Abstract Formalization of Logic / 60
Luis de Ledesma, Aurora Perez, Daniel Borrajo, and Luis M. Laita
Explaining Scientific Change: The Formation and Development of the Bacterial Theory of Ulcers / 66
Paul Thagard
Empirical Discovery in Linguistics / 68
Vladimir Pericliev
The Manipulation of Medical Literature as Interference of Medical Sciences in Order to Formulate New Hypotheses / 74
Floor Rikken and Rein Vos
Geobotanical Database Exploration / 76
Ireneusz R. Moraczewski and Robert Zembowicz, and Jan M. Zytkow
Issues in Automating Exploratory Data Analysis / 81
Robert St. Amant and Paul R. Cohen
Integration of Research Tasks for Modeling Discoveries in Particle Physics / 87
Sakir Kocabas and Pat Langley
Stages in the Process of Scientific Discovery / 93
Pat Langley
New Directions for Scientific Discovery Research: Applications / 94
Peter D. Warp
Notes on Systematic Hypothesis Generation, and Application to Disciplined Brainstorming / 97
Joshua S. Lederberg
Poster Papers
Taxonomy Revision in Botany: A Simulation of Historical Data / 99
Eugenio Alberdi and Derek Sleeman
Entailment Calculus as the Logic Basis of Automated Theorem Finding in Scientific Discovery / 105
Jingde Cheng
A Machine Learning and Equation Signature Approach to Equation Discovery / 111
Judith Ellen Devaney
Black Box Science / 116
Leona F. Fass
Genome Classification Systematics: Application to Human and Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses / 118
Alezander A. Filyukov
Making Multiple Hypotheses Explicit: An Explicit Strategy for Computational Models of Scientific Discovery / 119
Eric G. Freedman
Pattern Theoretic Learning / 125
Jeffrey A. Goldman, Timothy D. Ross, and David A. Gadd
Reduced Model Formation for 2D Vortex Interactions Using Machine Learning / 130
Haym Hirsh, Tom Ellman, Arunava Banerjee, David Dritschel, Hongbing Mao, and Norm Zabusky
Formation of Well-Justified Composite Explanatory Hypotheses Despite the Threat of Combinatorial Explosion / 133
John R. Josephson
A Methodology for Modeling Scientific Discovery / 139
Sakir Kocabas
A Framework for Scientific Discovery in Geological Databases / 145
Cen Li and Gautam Biswas
Discovering Complex Patterned Behavior: New Applications / 150
Aurora Pérez and Raúl E. Valdés-Pérez
Visual Abduction in Anthropology and Archeology / 155
Cameron Shelley
Discovery of Functional Components of Proteins from Amino-Acid Sequences based on Rough Sets and Hierarchical Reasoning / 160
Shusaku Tsumoto and Hiroshi Tanaka
Discovering Patterns by Searching for Simplicity / 166
Alezander P. M. van den Bosch
Understanding Causal Mechanisms by the Controlled Lesion Method / 172
Gregory D. Weber
Scientific Modeling: Round Trips to Many Destinations / 175
Jan M. Zytkow
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