Paper Info
Title
Digital Scientific Notations as a Human-Computer Interface in Computer-Aided Research.
Abstract
Most of today's scientific research relies on computers and software for processing scientific information. Examples of such computer-aided research are the analysis of experimental data or the simulation of phenomena based on theoretical models. With the rapid increase of computational power, scientific software has integrated more and more complex scientific knowledge in a black-box fashion. As a consequence, its users do not know, and do not even have a chance of finding out, which assumptions and approximations their computations are based on. This black-box nature of scientific software has made the verification of much computer-aided research close to impossible. The present work starts with an analysis of this situation from the point of view of human-computer interaction in scientific research. It identifies the key role of digital scientific notations at the human-computer interface, reviews the most popular ones in use today, and describes a proof-of-concept implementation of Leibniz, a language designed as a verifiable digital scientific notation for models formulated as mathematical equations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.7717/peerj-cs.158
PEERJ COMPUTER SCIENCE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Digital scientific notations,Human-computer interaction,Computational science,Verification,Validation,Computational documents
Journal
abs/1802.09307
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2376-5992
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Konrad Hinsen112645.16