, Ra'ul E. Vald'es-P'erez
Abstract:
The purpose of this special issue of Artificial Intelligence is to report some recent research on computer systems that can discover scientific laws or concepts. For several decades, the processes of discovering new scientific laws and concepts have been a topic of AI research, directed at either or both of two goals: namely, understanding human scientific reasoning, and secondly developing systems which autonomously, or collaboratively with the expert, contribute to scientific knowledge. The two goals can be pursued independently, but in fact, they have been intermingled; ideas derived from research on human scientific discovery have been applied in systems that are not committed to humanoid methods; and the design of discovery systems have contributed ideas about the processes that might be used by humans when performing these tasks. There has been extensive mutually beneficial interaction between these two activities. A great variety of processes are used in scientific discovery. Research problems must be identified and representations that describe them and their potential solutions must be formulated. Data must be gathered by making observations
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