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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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Author:   Lorenzo Magnani ,  Ping Li
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2007 ed.
Volume:   64
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.967kg
ISBN:  

9783540719854

ISBN 10:   3540719857
Pages:   525
Publication Date:   20 July 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Abduction, Problem Solving, and Practical Reasoning.- Animal Abduction.- Communicative Gestures Facilitate Problem Solving for Both Communicators and Recipients.- The Concept of Fallacy is Empty.- Abductive Reasoning, Information, and Mechanical Systems.- Automated Abduction in Scientific Discovery.- Abduction, Medical Semeiotics and Semioethics.- Abduction and Modeling in Biosemiotics and Sociosemiotics.- Reason out Emergence from Cellular Automata Modeling.- Belief Ascription and De Re Communication.- Multiagent-Based Simulation in Biology.- Mathematics through Diagrams: Microscopes in Non-Standard and Smooth Analysis.- Models, Mental Models, Representations, and Medical Reasoning.- Cognition, Environment and the Collapse of Civilizations.- Cognitive Aspects of Tacit Knowledge and Cultural Diversity.- The Functional-Analogical Explanation in Chinese Science and Technology.- Model-Based Reasoning and Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).- Model-Based Reasoning in Cognitive Science.- An Examination of Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine in India.- Ontology, Artefacts, and Models of Reasoning.- The Wondering Angels of the Fractal Art.- Logical and Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning.- Polynomizing: Logic Inference in Polynomial Format and the Legacy of Boole.- Abductive Inference and Iterated Conditionals.- Peircean Pragmatic Truth and da Costa’s Quasi-Truth.- Sliding Mode Motion Control Strategies for Rigid Robot Manipulators.- Model-Based Chemical Compound Formulation.- Model-Based Reasoning for Self-Repair of Autonomous Mobile Robots.- Application of Bayesian Inference to Automatic Semantic Annotation of Videos.- An Algebraic Approach to Model-Based Diagnosis.- CYBERNARD: A Computational Reconstruction of Claude Bernard's ScientificDiscoveries.- Do Computational Models of Reading Need a Bit of Semantics?.

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