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title: "Artificial Intellicence Research Stret..... In the Lltht of AI Models of Scientific Dlecovwy"
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url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/228"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0228.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
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# Artificial Intellicence Research Stret..... In the Lltht of AI Models of Scientific Dlecovwy



*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

Some recent artificial intelligence programs whose task is to simulate the procasMt of K\anUflc cftecovery can be taken as models of the history and processes of discovery within the AI dtac:l~lne ltaetf. CoNietently with these models, AI research relies basically on the methods of heuristic best-first Match. Blceu.e of lte nec..earlly vague and open goals, It works forward Inductively (rather than backward In menae ...f'lde fnhfon), tulded b)' a crude evaluation function that tests running programs to identify promislna dlrettrone.