Becoming Acton Bell

Grid Metadata Lifetime Control in Acton

In the Semantic Grid, metadata, as first class citizens, should be maintained upto-date in a cost-effective manner. This includes maximising the automation of different aspects of the metadata lifecycle, managing the evolution and change of metadata in distributed contexts, and synchronising adequately the evolution of all these related entities. In this paper, we introduce a semantic model and...

Becoming Teachers, Becoming Researchers: a Case Study

This paper presents a case study of a group in initial primary teacher education students becoming researchers of their peers’ course experiences of school – university links. The connection between university teacher preparation programmes and work in school is a well-researched area with suggestions that there is a marked disconnect between the two. The project took an emergent approach to le...

Becoming syntactic.

Psycholinguistic research has shown that the influence of abstract syntactic knowledge on performance is shaped by particular sentences that have been experienced. To explore this idea, the authors applied a connectionist model of sentence production to the development and use of abstract syntax. The model makes use of (a) error-based learning to acquire and adapt sequencing mechanisms and (b) ...

Becoming aware

We examine a logic that combines knowledge, awareness, and change of awareness. An agent can become aware of factual propositions but also of other agents or of herself. The dual operation to becoming aware, forgetting, can also be modelled. We show that the logic is decidable, and we present a complete axiomatization.

Becoming "Official"