Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine

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 Scientific Discoveries.- Do Computational Models of Reading Need a Bit of Semantics?.

Author: Lorenzo Magnani

Publisher: Springer

Publication Date: Jul 20, 2007

Number of Pages: 525 pages

Binding: Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10: 3540719857

ISBN-13: 9783540719854