Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology : Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery

Magnani, Lorenzo (EDT); Carnielli, Walter (EDT); Pizzi, Claudio (EDT)

ISBN 10: 3642152228 / ISBN 13: 9783642152221

Published by Springer, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology : Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642152228
• ISBN 13: 9783642152221
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Systematically presented to enhance the feasibility of fuzzy models, this book introduces the novel concept of a fuzzy network whose nodes are rule bases and their interconnections are interactions between rule bases in the form of outputs fed as inputs.

From the Back Cover

The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the international conference Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology (MBR09_BRAZIL), held at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, December 2009. The presentations given at the conference explored how scientific cognition, but several other kinds as well, use models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning to produce important or creative changes in theories and concepts. Some speakers addressed the problem of model-based reasoning in technology, and stressed the issue of science and technological innovation. The various contributions of the book are written by interdisciplinary researchers who are active in the area of creative reasoning in logic, science, and technology: the most recent results and achievements about the topics above are illustrated in detail in the papers. The book is divided in three parts, which cover the following main areas: part I, abduction, problem solving, and practical reasoning; part II: formal and computational aspects of model based reasoning; part III, models, mental models, representations.