SOO@RED.RUTGERS.EDU.UUCP (03/27/87)
THE III, AN INFORMAL SEMINAR FOR AND BY STUDENTS,
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Title: Automating Theory Formation --
Postulation of Enzyme Kinetic Models
and Experimental Design
Date: April 7th, Tuesday
Time: 11:00 AM
Place: Hill 423
Speaker: Von-Wun Soo
This is a practice talk for my Ph. D. thesis defense. I would like to
present the work that I have been involved for the past five years.
I cordially invite you to come, support, and make comments before
my final defense.
Abstract:
In this talk I discuss how expert reasoning in scientific research such
as designing biochemical experiments or postulating kinetic mechanisms can
be modeled. Broadly speaking, designing an experiment, an important compoent
of scientific theory formation, can be viewed as a process of searching
and testing plausible decompositions of a hypothesis space.
In my thesis, I show how the results of qualitative reasoning and a
set partition method can be used to select experimental setups that
discriminate a set of plausible models. The interpretation of
experimental results, the critiques of previous experiments,
and comparisons of similarities and discrepancies among experiments
are all related issues that lead us to the automation of
scientific discovery.
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