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Contents
Preface, xvii
Acknowledgments, xxi
Chapter 1 ◾ Introduction 1
Chapter 2 ◾ Why Accelerate Discovery? 9
SCott Spangler and Ying Chen
THE PROBLEM OF SYNTHESIS 11
THE PROBLEM OF FORMULATION 11
WHAT WOULD DARWIN DO? 13
THE POTENTIAL FOR ACCELERATED DISCOVERY:
USING COMPUTERS TO MAP THE KNOWLEDGE SPACE 14
WHY ACCELERATE DISCOVERY: THE BUSINESS
PERSPECTIVE 15
COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS THAT ENABLE ACCELERATED
DISCOVERY 16
Search 16
Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing 17
Massive Parallelization 17
Unstructured Information Mining 17
Natural Language Processing 17
Machine Learning 18
Collaborative Filtering/Matrix Factorization 18
Modeling a ...