In this postgenomic era, there is a specific need to assign function to orphan genes in order
to validate potential targets for drug therapy and to discover new biomarkers of disease …

It is considered in some quarters that hypothesis‐driven methods are the only valuable,
reliable or significant means of scientific advance. Data‐driven or 'inductive'advances in …

Perception and reasoning are two representative abilities of intelligence that are integrated
seamlessly during human problem-solving processes. In the area of artificial intelligence …

Wie kommt es zur Entdeckung des Neuen in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung?
Konsens herrscht darüber, dass dies allein mit einer gedanklichen Operation möglich ist, die …

The question of whether it is possible to automate the scientific process is of both great
theoretical interest, and increasing practical importance because, in many scientific areas …

The general purpose of this chapter is to provide a critical analysis on the controversial
enterprise of 'logics of discovery'. It is naturally divided into six parts. After this introduction, in …

This article describes abductions as special patterns of inference to the best explanation
whose structure determines a particularly promising abductive conjecture (conclusion) and …

Over the past four years, the Big Data and Exascale Computing (BDEC) project organized a
series of five international workshops that aimed to explore the ways in which the new forms …

There are at least twelve major virtues of good theories: evidential accuracy, causal
adequacy, explanatory depth, internal consistency, internal coherence, universal coherence …

This book is about display and interface design. It is the product of over 60 years of
combined experience studying, implementing, and teaching about performance in human …