Scientific Community Metaphor

The Scientific Community Metaphor was published in 1981 by Bill Kornfeld and Carl Hewitt as an approach to understanding scientific communities by extending pattern directed invocation programming languages (cf. Planner) that invoke high level procedural plans on the basis of messages, e.g., assertions and goals. Their work built on the philosophy, history and sociology of science with its analysis that scientific research depends critically on monotonicity, concurrency, commutativity, and pluralism to propose, modify, support, and oppose scientific methods, practices, and theories.

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1981 - Carl Hewitt - Scientific communities - Programming language - Planner

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A programming language named Ether was developed that invokes procedural plans to process goals and assertions concurrently by dynamically creating new rules during program execution. Ether also addressed issues of conflict and contradiction with multiple sources of knowledge and multiple viewpoints.

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