Title
A scientific hypothesis conceptual model
Abstract
In-silico scientific research is a complex task that involves the management of huge volumes of data and metadata produced during the scientific exploration life cycle, from hypothesis formulation up to its final validation. This wealth of data needs to be structured and managed in a way that readily makes sense to scientists, so that relevant knowledge may be extracted to contribute to the scientific investigation process. This paper proposes a scientific hypothesis conceptual model that allows scientists to represent the phenomenon been investigated, the hypotheses formulated in the attempt to explain it, and provides the ability to store results of experiment simulations with their corresponding provenance metadata. The proposed model supports scientific life-cycle: provenance, scientists exchange of information, experiment reproducibility, model steering and results analyses. A cardiovascular numerical simulation illustrates the applicability of the model and an initial implementation using SciDB is discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-33999-8_13
ER Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
scientific investigation process,scientific hypothesis,scientists exchange,in-silico scientific research,conceptual model,model steering,scientific life-cycle,scientific exploration life cycle,corresponding provenance metadata
Data science,Data mining,Metadata,Hypothesis,Conceptual model,Computer simulation,Computer science,Exchange of information,Database,Scientific method
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
14
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fabio Porto1214.50
Ana Maria de C. Moura2193.62
Bernardo Gonçalves3366.64
Ramon Costa400.34
Stefano Spaccapietra52603565.28