Some Topics of Interest
- Given progress on multiple fronts relevant to scientific discovery (e.g., theorem proving, model finding, conjecture generation, etc.), can comprehensive or multi-faceted discovery systems be developed?
- What role does/should knowledge, and knowledge-based systems, play in the development of AI discovery systems? Can the vast amount of knowledge available on the web (and specifically structured knowledge on Semantic Web) be used by discovery s ystems?
- Systems for human-machine collaborative discovery.
- Can architectures for carefully describing, in computational terms, the overall process of scientific discovery be devised?
- What role can the cognitive science of discovery (creativity, invention, etc.) play in AI's quest for discovery systems?
Submissions
We invite submissions for original papers that introduce new research developments, directions, frameworks, results, etc. in these and related areas (we are not actively seeking opinion papers, but will consider all submissions). Potential participants may submit full papers (up to 8 pages in length) or short papers (1-2 pages in length) by May 20, 2008 sent electronically to shilla@cs.rpi.edu or selmer@rpi.edu.
Important Dates
- Paper submission: May 20, 2008
- Notification of acceptance: June 6, 2008
- Camera ready papers: September 12, 2008