Ontology, Epistemology, and Teleology for Modeling and Simulation - Philosophical Foundations for Intelligent M&S Applications (Paperback, 2013 ed.)

In this book, internationally recognized experts in philosophy of science, computer science, and modeling and simulation are contributing to the discussion on how ontology, epistemology, and teleology will contribute to enable the next generation of intelligent modeling and simulation applications. It is well understood that a simulation can provide the technical means to display the behavior of a system over time, including following observed trends to predict future possible states, but how reliable and trustworthy are such predictions? The questions about what we can know (ontology), how we gain new knowledge (epistemology), and what we do with this knowledge (teleology) are therefore illuminated from these very different perspectives, as each experts uses a different facet to look at these challenges. The result of bringing these perspectives into one book is a challenging compendium that gives room for a spectrum of challenges: from general philosophy questions, such as can we use modeling and simulation and other computational means at all to discover new knowledge, down to computational methods to improve semantic interoperability between systems or methods addressing how to apply the recent insights of service oriented approaches to support distributed artificial intelligence. As such, this book has been compiled as an entry point to new domains for students, scholars, and practitioners and to raise the curiosity in them to learn more to fully address the topics of ontology, epistemology, and teleology from philosophical, computational, and conceptual viewpoints.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 44
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	2012
Editors:	Andreas Tolk
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	372
Edition:	2013 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-44281-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Promotions
LSN:	3-642-44281-1
Barcode:	9783642442810

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