Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine

ISBN 10: 3642091172 / ISBN 13: 9783642091179

Published by Springer, 2010

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pp. xiv + 526.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642091172
• ISBN 13: 9783642091179
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The volume is based on papers presented at the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine held in China in 2006. The presentations explore how scientific thinking uses models and explanatory reasoning to produce creative changes in theories and concepts. The contributions to the book are written by researchers active in the area of creative reasoning in science and technology. They include the subject area’s most recent results and achievements.

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The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the international conference Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine (MBR’06 China), held at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China in July 2006. The presentations given at the conference explored how scientific thinking uses models and explanatory reasoning to produce creative changes in theories and concepts. Some addressed the problem of model-based reasoning in technology, and stressed the issue of technological innovation and medical reasoning.  The various contributions of the book are written by interdisciplinary researchers who are active in the area of creative reasoning in science and technology: the most recent results and achievements about the topics above are illustrated in detail in the papers.