After the conference, all the authors of accepted proposals are entitled to submit a complete paper for the proceedings to be sent to Matteo Costa, matteo.costa@uniroma1.it

Papers should be previously unpublished, written in English, and formatted in either LaTeX or DOC, with a maximum of 20 pages. If you use LATEX, BIBTEX is preferred.

Final date for submissions is September 30, 2026.

Proceedings will be published by Springer – SAPERE series.

Moreover, an additional subset of papers will be invited for inclusion (again following further review) in one or two special issues of the Logic Journal of IGPL or another of the well-known international journals that have already published papers from MBR98, MBR01, MBR04, MBR06_CHINA, MBR09_BRAZIL, MBR012:ITALY; MBR015_ITALY, MBR018_SPAIN.

PREVIOUS MBR CONFERENCES, BOOKS, AND SPECIAL ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

The conference builds on the topics and traditions of the previous eight MBR conferences:

• ‘Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery’, MBR’98
• ‘Model-Based Reasoning: Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, and Values’, MBR’01
• ‘Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering: Abduction, Visualization, and Simulation’ MBR’04
• ‘Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine’, MBR06_CHINA;
• ‘Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery’, MBR09_BRAZIL;
• ‘Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Theoretical and Cognitive Issues’, MBR12_ITALY
• ‘Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Models and Inferences: Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues’, MBR15_ITALY
• ‘Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technlogy. Inferential Models for Logic, Language, Cognition and Computation’, MBR018_SPAIN
• ‘Model-Based Reasoning, Abductive Cognition, Creativity Inferences & Models In Science, Logic, Language, And Technology’, MBR023_ROME

The volumes from these conferences are:

• L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and P. Thagard (eds.) (1999), Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.  (Chinese edition, translated and edited by Q. Yu and T. Wang, China Science and Technology Press, Beijing, 2000).
• L. Magnani and N. J. Nersessian (eds.) (2002), Model-Based Reasoning. Science, Technology, Values, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.  
• L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and C. Pizzi (eds.) (2002), Logical and Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht. 
• P. Li, X. Chen, Z. Zhang, and H. Zhang (eds.)(2004), Science, Cognition, and Consciousness, JiangXi People’s Press, Nanchang, China.
• L. Magnani and Li. Ping (eds.) (2006), Philosophical Investigations from a Perspective of Cognition, Guangdong People’s Publishing House, Guangzhou, (published in Chinese).
• L. Magnani (2006) (ed.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering. Cognitive Science, Epistemology, Logic, College Publications, London.  
• L. Magnani and P. Li (eds.) (2007), Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine, Series “Studies in Computational Intelligence”, Vol. 64, Springer, Berlin/New York.  
• L. Magnani, W. Carnielli, C. Pizzi (eds.) (2010) Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery, Series “Studies in Computational Intelligence”, Vol. 314, Springer, Heidelberg/Berlin. 
• L. Magnani (ed.) (2014) Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Theoretical and Cognitive Issues, Series “Sapere”, Vol. 8, Springer, Heidelberg/Berlin. 
• L. Magnani and C. Casadio (eds.) (2016), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues, Springer, Switzerland, Series “Sapere” 
• A. Nepomuceno, L. Magnani, F. Salguero, C. Barés and M. Fontaine (eds.) (2019), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology – Inferential Models for Logic, Language, Cognition and Computation, Springer, Cham, Switzerland.
• Selected papers from the previous conferences have also been published in international journals such as Philosophia, Foundations of Science, Logic Journal of the IGPL.

A recent HANDBOOK based on research by the MBR community is: L. Magnani, T. Bertolotti (eds.) (2017) Springer Handbook of Model-Based Science, Springer, Switzerland

A forthcoming HANDBOOK research by the MBR community is: L. Magnani (ed.) ‘Handbook of abductive cognition’, Springer, Switzerland.