Automated discovery of empirical laws

Fundamenta Informaticae

Volumn 27, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 299-318

  Zytkow, Jan M ^a,b  

^a Wichita State University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

AUTOMATED DISCOVERY; EMPIRICAL LAWS; FAHRENHEIT DISCOVERY SYSTEM;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 0030217717     PISSN: 01692968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/fi-1996-272315     Document Type: Article

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