Machine Discovery

Jan Zytkow

ISBN 10: 0792344065 / ISBN 13: 9780792344063

Editore: Springer Netherlands Feb 1997, 1997

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 156 pp. Englisch. Codice articolo 9780792344063

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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 study 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.

Contenuti: Machine Discovery:- Machine Discovery; H.A. Simon. Comments; M. Boden, et al. Machine Discovery: Replay to Comments; H.A. Simon. The Process of Discovery; Wei- Min Shen. Creating a Discoverer: Autonomous Knowledge Seeking Agent; J. Zytkow. Varia:- Are Dinosaurs Extinct? R. Creath. Poincaré's Conventionalism and the Logical Positivists; M. Friedman. Biographical Notes. Some Facts on AFOS.

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Titolo: Machine Discovery
Casa editrice: Springer Netherlands Feb 1997
Data di pubblicazione: 1997
Legatura: Buch
Condizione: Neu