Computational Discovery of Scientific Knowledge

by Dzeroski, Saso; Todorovski, Ljupco

• ISBN13: 9783540739197
• ISBN10: 354073919X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-26
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

Advances in technology have enabled the collection of data from scientific observations, simulations, and experiments at an ever-increasing pace. For the scientist and engineer to benefit from these enhanced data collecting capabilities, it is becoming clear that semi-automated data analysis techniques must be applied to find the useful information in the data. Techniques from both data mining and computational discovery can be used to that end. This state-of-the-art survey provides an introduction to computational approaches to the discovery of communicable scientific knowledge and gives an overview of recent advances in this area. The primary focus is on discovery in scientific and engineering disciplines, where communication of knowledge is often a central concern. The 15 articles presented are partly inspired by the contributions of the International Symposium on Computational Discovery of Communicable Knowledge, held in Stanford, CA, USA in March 2001 - more representative coverage of recent research in computational discovery is achieved by a number of additional invited contributions.

Table of Contents

Computational Discovery of Scientific Knowledge	p. 1
Equation Discovery and Dynamic Systems Identification
Communicable Knowledge in Automated System Identification	p. 17
Incorporating Engineering Formalisms into Automated Model Builders	p. 44
Integrating Domain Knowledge in Equation Discovery	p. 69
Communicability Criteria of Law Equations Discovery	p. 98
Quantitative Revision of Scientific Models	p. 120
Discovering Communicable Models from Earth Science Data	p. 138
Structure Discovery from Massive Spatial Data Sets Using Intelligent Simulation Tools	p. 158
Computational Discovery in Pure Mathematics	p. 175
Computational Scientific Discovery in Biomedicine
Automatic Computational Discovery of Chemical Reaction Networks Using Genetic Programming	p. 205
Discovery of Genetic Networks Through Abduction and Qualitative Simulation	p. 228
Learning Qualitative Models of Physical and Biological Systems	p. 248
Logic and the Automatic Acquisition of Scientific Knowledge: An Application to Functional Genomics	p. 273
Drug Discovery as an Example of Literature-Based Discovery	p. 290
Literature Based Discovery Support System and Its Application to Disease Gene Identification	p. 307
Author Index	p. 327
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