International Workshop

COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF SCIENTIFIC REASONING AND APPLICATIONS

Purpose

In the era of distributed and decentralized information technologies, the role of reasoning and theorizing about knowledge becomes crucial for the design and control of information systems. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together practitioners in the several fields involved in the computational models of scientific reasoning (Logic, KR&R, Cognitive Sciences, Epistemology and Theory of Science, among others) in order to exchange the results of their ongoing research, share their experiences and speculate about their impact on the new information technologies.



Scope The scope of the workshop includes (but is not limited to) the following areas:


Inference Procedures Ampliative Inference Argumentative and Defeasible Reasoning Analogy, Induction and Abduction Paraconsistent Logics Plausible and Hypothetical Reasoning Causal and Explanatory Reasoning Hypothesis Formation, Learning and Discovery Coherence, Explanation and Acceptance Procedural Rationality Distributed Scientific Inference	Philosophical Aspects of the Computational Models of Scientific Reasoning Computational Epistemology and Theory of Science Cognitive Theory Formation Acceptance and Decision Making Reasoning as opposed to Logic Concept Formation and Conceptual Change Design in Scientific Method The Growth of Knowledge

Social Metaphors Science as Distributed Computing Models of Science Distributed over Large Networks (grids, semantic webs) Internet Epistemology Self-Organizing Agents Team Theory Rules of Negotiation Social Choice Sociology of Knowledge Evolutionary Epistemology	Applications New Information Technologies Computational Theories in the Sciences Intelligent Data Mining Agent-Based Scientific Discovery Modelling Agreement Intelligent Protocols for E-Commerce

Program Committee: Diderik Batens Wijsbegeerte Universiteit Gent - Belgium Diderik.Batens@rug.ac.be Jean-Yves Béziau Institut de Logique Université de Neuchàtel - Switzerland Jean-Yves.Beziau@unine.ch Otávio Bueno Department of Philosophy University of South Carolina - USA obueno@sc.edu Walter Carnielli Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science State University of Campinas - Brazil carniell@cle.unicamp.br Marcelo Coniglio Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science State University of Campinas - Brazil coniglio@cle.unicamp.br Claudio Delrieux Universidad Nacional del Sur - Argentina claudio@acm.org Steven French School of Philosophy University of Leeds - UK s.r.d.french@leeds.ac.uk Lorenzo Magnani Department of Philosophy & Computational Philosophy Laboratory University of Pavia - ITALY, and lorenzo.magnani@unipv.it David Pearce Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid - Spain d.pearce@escet.urjc.es Luís Moniz Pereira Centro de Inteligència Artificial - CENTRIA Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Portugal lmp@di.fct.unl.pt


Last updated July 29th., 2003