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Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007 Edition
Author(s): Lorenzo Magnani (Editor), Ping Li
- Publisher: Springer
- Publication Date: November 11, 2010
- Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 538 pages
- ISBN-10: 3642091172
- ISBN-13: 9783642091179
Book Description
The volume is based on papers presented at the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine held in China in 2006. The presentations explore how scientific thinking uses models and explanatory reasoning to produce creative changes in theories and concepts. The contributions to the book are written by researchers active in the area of creative reasoning in science and technology. They include the subject area’s most recent results and achievements.
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The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the international conference Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine (MBR’06 China), held at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China in July 2006. The presentations given at the conference explored how scientific thinking uses models and explanatory reasoning to produce creative changes in theories and concepts. Some addressed the problem of model-based reasoning in technology, and stressed the issue of technological innovation and medical reasoning. The various contributions of the book are written by interdisciplinary researchers who are active in the area of creative reasoning in science and technology: the most recent results and achievements about the topics above are illustrated in detail in the papers.
