Implementation Issues for a Highly Structured Research Report

Abstract

We have proposed that scientific research reports should be constructed entirely of structured knowledge rather than text. In an earlier paper, we emphasized Research Designs as a framework for structured research reports and described how a structured implementation might be applied to Pasteur’s classic swan-neck flask experiment. In this paper, we examine some of the issues encountered in developing that implementation using dynamic models. For instance, we consider issues associated with modeling state transitions.