Joseph ("Prof Joe") Phillips

DePaul University
College of Computing and Digital Media
243 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL 60604

My research is on Computational Scientific Discovery ("CSD"), a small but growing field concerned with developing algorithms and software to help practicing scientists build scientific models. It borrows from (but is distinct from) the fields of:

• science,
• the philosophy of science, and
• computer science

From Science it borrows:

• Occam's Razor
• The "Scientific Method"

From the Philosophy of Science it borrows:

• Theories of explanation
• Theories of prediction
• Theories of model preference

From Computer Science (especially Artificial Intelligence) it borrows:

• Scientific Visualization
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
• Machine Learning
• Knowledge Discovery in Databases/Data Mining

Since 2005 or so I have been concerned with the semantics of scientific metadata.

• Phillips, J. (2010) "A Proposed Semantics for the Sampled Values and Metadata of Scientific Values" Data Analysis, Data Quality & Metadata Management (DAMD 2010) Singapore.
  (An earlier version appeared in Midwest Conference on Artifcial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (MAICS) South Bend, Indiana, USA).

Since 2016, my Company and I have been working on a platform for implementing hierarchical scientific knowledge bases and supporting scientific applications:

• A high-level presentation of what we will accomplish.
• A slightly more detailed presentation.
• Programer' Guide to our programming language

Prior publications appear here.