The theory of probability is widely used in biomedical research for data analysis and modelling. In previous work the probabilities of the research hypotheses have been recorded as experimental metadata. The ontology HELO is designed to support probabilistic reasoning, and provides semantic descriptors for reporting on research that involves operations with probabilities. HELO explicitly links ...

The Plinius-project at the University of Twente is aimed at constructing large-scale knowledge bases in scientific and engineering domains, through computer analysis of natural-language texts. One of the many problems in this endeavor is caused by inconsistencies in the scientific literature. In this short report (of which a fuller version is available [de Jong, 1992]) we describe our approach ...

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). WebSci’13, April 27 – May 2, 2013, Paris, France. ACM 978-1-XXXX-XXXX-X/XX/XX. Introduction Popperian Scientific Method The main contribution of this paper is a generic game, called the Scientific Community Game (SCG), for the Popperian Scientific Method [14]. Popper, one of the most influential philosophers of science of the previous century, promoted ...

In the recent years followed by strongly growth, mobile broadband starts governing the traffic. For the purpose of satisfying user it is from high importance mobile network operators to assess the needed network capacity, when facing the boosting demand and shortage of the available spectrum. The deployment of 3G and nowadays 4G has resulted in increased capacity, but due to the essential shift...

The production of scientific knowledge is a social process that can be analysed with the help of conceptual tools drawn from economic science. A growing literature shows that this analysis is fruitful for the understanding of relevant cognitive aspects of the process of science and its outcomes, and can offer a middle ground between rationalist and constructivist paradigms. Three apoproaches ar...

What is scientific progress? On Alexander Bird's epistemic account of scientific progress, an episode in science is progressive precisely when there is more scientific knowledge at the end of the episode than at the beginning. Using Bird's epistemic account as a foil, this paper develops an alternative understanding-based account on which an episode in science is progressive precisely when scie...

corresponding to the division of the scientific knowledge to demonstrable and indemonstrable knowledge in aristotle’s philosophy, the concept of nous has two interwoven senses. besides nous as the demonstrable scientific knowledge, it is also regarded as the hexis of the soul. there are three specific functions of this latter sense: i) acquiring principles on which the scientific knowledge is b...

This paper makes a theoretical critique of the concept of scientific knowledge. The classical conception of scientific knowledge has been discussed and analyzed in the first section. In the second section, emerging conception of the scientific knowledge has been explored. The author hopes to show on the basis of veritable critique from different philosophers of science as well as scientist (Kuh...

Scientific domains are characterized by substantial amounts of complex data, many unknowns, lack of complete theories, and rapid evolution. In many areas of decision making, much of the reasoning process is based on experience rather than on general knowledge. Experts remember positive cases for possible reuse of solutions, but negative cases are also useful for avoiding potentially unsuccessfu...

the paper first addresses the confilict between religion and science, together with some solutions proposed. it then proposes religious knowledge as an epistimological field which obey the laws of empirical sciences. the solution put forward addresses a deep_rooted confilict,as it is in reference to one concerning scientific and religious propositions. moreover, it does not ignore the confilict...