Experimenting and theorizing in theory formation

  • Authors:
  • B W Koehn;J M Zytkow

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, The Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas;Computer Science Department, The Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas

  • Venue:
  • ISMIS '86 Proceedings of the ACM SIGART international symposium on Methodologies for intelligent systems
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

The BACON system, developed by Langley, Simon and Bradshaw, has shown the utility of a data driven discovery system. A new system, called FAHRENHEIT, has been built which extends BACON, making it more robust and allowing it perform a wider range of discovery activity. The new system extends BACON in several ways: 1) It determines the scope of a law by making simulated experiments, and by searching for regularities that describe the scope boundaries. 2) The world model in which the experiments are performed is more sophisticated. 3) The order in which the data are considered is placed under the control of FAHRENHEIT so that the system continues the discovery process even if no regularity is found for a particular variable.