Discovery Task

A Discovery Task is a general task that returns patterns in data.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Manual Discovery Task to being an Automated Discovery Task.
  • It can range from being a Heuristic Discovery Task to being a Data-Driven Discovery Task.
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• Example(s):
  • a Data Mining Task.
  • a scientific expedition.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Search Task.
  • Finding Task.
• See: Exploratory Data Analysis, Scientific Experiment, Observation, Science, Empirical Research.

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References

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/discovery_(observation) Retrieved:2015-11-8.
  • Discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something "old" that had been unknown. With reference to science and academic disciplines, discovery is the observation of new phenomena, new actions, or new events and providing new reasoning to explain the knowledge gathered through such observations with previously acquired knowledge from abstract thought and everyday experiences. A discovery may sometimes be based on earlier discoveries, collaborations, or ideas. Some discoveries represent a radical breakthrough in knowledge or technology.

1997

• (Susuki, 1997) ⇒ Einoshin Suzuki. (1997). “Autonomous Discovery of Reliable Exception Rules.” In: Proceedings of KDD Conference (KDD 1997)
  • QUOTE: In our algorithm, a discovery task is viewed as a search problem, in which a node of a search tree represents a rule pair …

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