Fabrice MUHLENBACHEURISE

University of Saint-Etienne (France)fabrice.muhlenbach@univ-st-etienne.fr

Renaissance Engineas a Cognitive Artifact

Christopher YUKNAEcole des Mines de Saint-Etienne

(France)yukna@emse.fr

Outline

• Historical Renaissance

• The CyberRenaissance

• Building the Renaissance Engine

• Conclusion / Future Work

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Historical Renaissance

• Identity

Time: Born the late 14th Century

Place: from Italy to the Northern Europe15th Century: the Gutenberg press

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Da Vinci

Copernicus

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Renaissance Men

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For the paintings:

1340

1082

1423

1489

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The CyberRenaissance

Definition:Man + Computer + Internet + Software = CyberRenaissance

Today:• Gutenberg Press = Internet• Papal Library = Search Engines

Differences between the Historical Renassanceand the CyberRenaissance:• Internet is not just a library• Computer is not a book

as it applies to Science

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Building the Renaissance Engine

Identifying the similarities between divergent fields:eg, charged particles, protons, hydrogen ions are all thesame things but referred differently in separate domains

Identifying the pattern of errors:• abductive reasoning • Occam’s Guillotine

Spotting the void:• finding emptyness implies pioneering• search engines never help us to find the abyss

Prototype/Mockup:CyberNautilus

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The Reasoning Processes

• Deduction (Aristotle)

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propositions / premise

particularconclusion

(special fact)

deductivereasoning

expert system: from rules to new facts

• Induction

machine learning: from examples to rules

observations of recurringphenomenal patterns

generalconclusion

(laws)

inductivereasoning

• Abduction (Peirce)

in artificial intelligence?

set of factsmost likely

hypothesis andexplanations

abductivereasoning

belief revision / automated planning

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Search Engine Optimized

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Conclusion / Future Work

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What needs to be done to create the Renaissance Engine?

web intelligence

RenaissanceEngine

data mining

informationretrieval

machinelearning

artificial intelligenceto spot the void

multi-agentsystem

Error DNAcomputer-assisted recognition of mistake elements

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