Table of Contents

1. Modeling the Process of Chance Discovery.- 2. Decisions by Chance and on Chance: Meanings of Chance in Recent News Stories.- 3. Prediction, Forecasting, and Chance Discovery.- 4. Self-organizing Complex Systems.- 5. Anatomy of Rare Events in a Complex Adaptive System.- 6. Human-to-Human Communication for Chance Discovery in Business.- 7. Topic Diffusion in a Community.- 8. Dimensional Representations of Knowledge in an Online Community.- 9. Discovery of Tacit Knowledge and Topical Ebbs and Flows Within the Utterances of an Online Community.- 10. Agent Communications for Chance Discovery.- 11. Logics of Argumentation for Chance Discovery.- 12. Awareness and Imagination of Hidden Factors and Rare Events.- 13. Effects of Scenic Information.- 14. The Storification of Chances.- 15. The Prepared Mind: the Role of Representational Change in Chance Discovery.- 16. Abduction and Analogy in Chance Discovery.- 17. Active Mining with Visual Human Interface.- 18. KeyGraph: Visualized Structure Among Event Clusters.- 19. Discovering Deep Building Blocks for Competent Genetic Algorithms Using Chance Discovery via KeyGraphs.- 20. Enhancing Daily Conversations.- 21. Chance Discoveries from the WWW.- 22. Detection of Earthquake Risks with KeyGraph.- 23. Application to Questionnaire Analysis.- 24. Chance Discovery for Consumers.- 25. Application to Understanding Consumers’ Latent Desires.- Author Index.