Relevance Criteria for Reproducibility: The Contextual Emergence of Granularity

2016 ◽  
pp. 527-540
Author(s):  
Harald Atmanspacher
Keyword(s):  
Relevance Criteria ◽  
Contextual Emergence

scholarly journals Relevance relations for the concept of reproducibility

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (94) ◽  
pp. 20131030 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Atmanspacher ◽  
L. Bezzola Lambert ◽  
G. Folkers ◽  
P. A. Schubiger
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
General Relation ◽  
Basic Sciences ◽  
Large Scale Systems ◽  
Interdisciplinary Work ◽  
Fundamental Ontology ◽  
Relevance Criteria ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Difficult Issue ◽  
Contextual Emergence

The concept of reproducibility is widely considered a cornerstone of scientific methodology. However, recent problems with the reproducibility of empirical results in large-scale systems and in biomedical research have cast doubts on its universal and rigid applicability beyond the so-called basic sciences. Reproducibility is a particularly difficult issue in interdisciplinary work where the results to be reproduced typically refer to different levels of description of the system considered. In such cases, it is mandatory to distinguish between more and less relevant features, attributes or observables of the system, depending on the level at which they are described. For this reason, we propose a scheme for a general ‘relation of relevance’ between the level of complexity at which a system is considered and the granularity of its description. This relation implies relevance criteria for particular selected aspects of a system and its description, which can be operationally implemented by an interlevel relation called ‘contextual emergence’. It yields a formally sound and empirically applicable procedure to translate between descriptive levels and thus construct level-specific criteria for reproducibility in an overall consistent fashion. Relevance relations merged with contextual emergence challenge the old idea of one fundamental ontology from which everything else derives. At the same time, our proposal is specific enough to resist the backlash into a relativist patchwork of unconnected model fragments.

Relational Blockworld and Quantum Mechanics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Silberstein ◽  
W.M. Stuckey ◽  
Timothy McDevitt
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Measurement Problem ◽  
Quantum Nonlocality ◽  
Global Constraints ◽  
Quantum Superposition ◽  
Delayed Choice ◽  
Counterfactual Definiteness ◽  
Main Thread ◽  
Block Universe ◽  
Contextual Emergence

The main thread of chapter 4 introduces some of the major mysteries and interpretational issues of quantum mechanics (QM). These mysteries and issues include: quantum superposition, quantum nonlocality, Bell’s inequality, entanglement, delayed choice, the measurement problem, and the lack of counterfactual definiteness. All these mysteries and interpretational issues of QM result from dynamical explanation in the mechanical universe and are dispatched using the authors’ adynamical explanation in the block universe, called Relational Blockworld (RBW). A possible link between RBW and quantum information theory is provided. The metaphysical underpinnings of RBW, such as contextual emergence, spatiotemporal ontological contextuality, and adynamical global constraints, are provided in Philosophy of Physics for Chapter 4. That is also where RBW is situated with respect to retrocausal accounts and it is shown that RBW is a realist, psi-epistemic account of QM. All the relevant formalism for this chapter is provided in Foundational Physics for Chapter 4.

Reading grid for feature selection relevance criteria in regression

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Degeest ◽  
Benoît Frénay ◽  
Michel Verleysen
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Relevance Criteria

Natural Language Interfaces to Databases

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Rodolfo A. Pazos-Rangel ◽  
Gilberto Rivera ◽  
José A. Martínez F. ◽  
Juana Gaspar ◽  
Rogelio Florencia-Juárez
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Experimental Evaluation ◽  
Natural Language Interfaces ◽  
Relevance Criteria ◽  
Number Of Citations

This chapter consists of an update of a previous publication. Specifically, the chapter aims at describing the most decisive advances in NLIDBs of this decade. Unlike many surveys on NLIDBs, for this chapter, the NLIDBs will be selected according to three relevance criteria: performance (i.e., percentage of correctly answered queries), soundness of the experimental evaluation, and the number of citations. To this end, the chapter will also include a brief review of the most widely used performance measures and query corpora for testing NLIDBs.

Contextual Emergence of Physical Properties

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 481-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Bishop ◽  
George F. R. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Contextual Emergence
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