Model-Based Reasoning 2012 ITALY (MBR012_ITALY)

From Thursday the 21th to Saturday the 23th of June 2012, the International Conference

MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Theoretical and Cognitive Issues

took place at Fondazione Mediaterraneo in the town of Sestri Levante (Province of Genoa), Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea), Italy.

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The conference dealt with the logical, epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling practices employed in science and cognitive science, including logical and computational models of such practices. We solicited papers that examined the role of abduction, visualization, simulation, and other aspects in model-based reasoning from philosophical, historical, sociological, psychological, or computational perspectives. The conference was also devoted to examine the impact of Model-Based Reasoning research in the enhancement of various kinds of human cognitive skills, mental, hybrid, manipulatory, etc.

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We called for papers that covered topics pertaining to
model-based reasoning in science and human cognition from the following list:

– general theoretical and cognitive issues
– models as fictions, distortions, credible worlds
– models and games of make-believe
– ontology of models
– affordances, artifacts, and model-based reasoning
– brain, neuroscience, and model-based reasoning
– abduction
– logical analyses related to model-based reasoning
– visual, spatial, imagistic modeling and reasoning
– simulative modeling
– the role of diagrammatic representations
– computational models of visual and simulative reasoning
– causal and counterfactual reasoning in model construction
– visual analogy
– thought experimenting
– manipulative reasoning
– distributed model-based reasoning
– distributed cognition, embodiment, and model-based reasoning
– model-based reasoning in scientific discovery and conceptual change
– model-based reasoning and ethics
– model-based reasoning and semiotics
– model-based reasoning in scientific explanation
– model-based medical diagnosis
– model-based reasoning in engineering and robotics
– model-based reasoning and technological artifacts
– model-based reasoning and knowledge management
– model-based reasoning and information technology
– the role of models in scientific and technological thinking

Proceedings have been published by SPRINGER (series “SAPERE” http://www.springer.com/series/10087). Selected technical papers will be published in a special issue of an international journal.