Note: This call and updated information can be found at
http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~vcorrubl/IJHCS/cfp.html
Focus of the Special Issue
Scientific discovery is a human and social process that has
attracted attention from a growing portion of the AI community,
as well as from neighbouring disciplines such as philosophy and
psychology. It is an important area for the study of creativity,
itself a fundamental subject for Artificial Intelligence research.
A number of recent meetings have been dedicated to scientific discovery,
such as a AAAI Spring Symposium at Stanford University in 1995 and
a workshop at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in
Brighton (UK) in August 1998. Scientific Discovery was also the topic
of a special issue of the Artificial Intelligence Journal in 1997.
Given that the tasks tackled are usually complex, and require background
knowledge at the hypothesis generation and evaluation stages, most
systems involve an expert in the loop. The experts' primary role is
to evaluate hypotheses and the proposed new knowledge. Thus, for the
present, most scientific discovery systems are Cooperative, making this
a very suitable topic for a special issue of this journal.
Contribution are invited in the following areas:
(Cooperative) systems and tools to automate/aid scientific discovery
New computational models of scientific activity
Reports on new scientific findings resulting from the use of
computational tools performing non-trivial, high-end tasks
Lessons learned from earlier science (recent or not so recent) through
computational simulations and case studies
Psychological studies of the discovery process.
Submission information
Papers should be up to 10,000 words including Abstracts & the Bibliography; text in diagrams & figures will not be counted in this figure.
Please note that the deadline for getting your papers to us is March 1st, 1999,
either by e-mail (postscript format at this address: disco98@csd.abdn.ac.uk) or
by mail:
Derek Sleeman (IJHCS Special Issue)
University of Aberdeen
Department of Computing Science
King's College
Aberdeen AB24 3UE
Scotland, U.K.
Editorial committee
Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen, UK
Vincent Corruble, University of Aberdeen, UK
Raul Valdes-Perez, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Important dates
Date (deadline) relevance
1 March 1999 Deadline for paper submission
1 May 1999 Comments to Authors
1 July 1999 Revised papers received
Contact for enquiries:
Derek Sleeman or Vincent Corruble. E-mail address: disco98@csd.abdn.ac.uk
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