Three Principles for Chance Discovery

Chance, design and discovery.

Methodological Considerations on Chance Discovery

This paper investigates the methodological foundations of a new research field called chance discovery which aims to detect future opportunities and risks. By drawing on concepts from cybernetics and system theory, it is argued that chance discovery best applies to open systems that are equipped with regulatory mechanisms to approximate an ‘ideal’ state. We will motivate anticipation as an addi...

Web Intelligence and Chance Discovery

Web Intelligence deals with the scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of soft computing and advanced intelligent paradigms for the next generation of Web-based systems, services, and environments. Chance discovery means discovering chances — the breaking points in systems, the marketing windows in business, etc. It involves determining...

Chance Discovery Using Dialectical Argumentation

The authors propose the use of a dialectical argumentation formalism for chance discovery in domains where knowledge is distributed across a number of distinct knowledge-bases, as in a system of autonomous software agents. Each agent may have only a partial view of a problem, and may have insufficient knowledge to prove particular hypotheses; our formalism provides a means to aggregate across t...

A Scope of Chance Discovery

What we call chance discovery is the discovery of a chance, not by chance. Here, a ``chance'' is defined as a piece of information, about an event or a situation which gives significant impact on the decision-making of human, agents, and robots. This follows the second meaning of ``chance''a suitable time or occasion to do something in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, considering that ...