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Computer science research on scientific discovery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Raúl E. Valdés-Pérez
Raúl E. Valdés-Pérez
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Computer Science Department and Center for Light Microscope Imaging and Biotechnology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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Abstract

This article is an essay on directions and methodology in computer-science oriented research on scientific discovery. The essay starts by reviewing briefly some of the history of computing in scientific reasoning, and some of the results and impact that have been achieved. The remainder analyses some of the goals of this field, its relations with sister fields, and the practical applications of this analysis to evaluating research quality, reviewing, and methodology. An earlier review in this journal (Kocabas 1991b) analysed scientific discovery programs in terms of their designs, achievements and shortcomings; the focus here is research directions, evaluation and methodology, all from the viewpoint of computer science.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 1996 , pp. 57 - 66
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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