La science comme fiction

Fiction informed by science.

Document pour l'Action comme media pour la Gestion de Connaissances

Dans cet article, nous proposons une approche originale d’analyse des Systèmes de Gestion de Connaissances (SGC) basée sur un rapprochement avec la notion de document numérique. Dans un premier temps, nous abordons les théories en rapport avec le document numérique sur lesquelles nous nous appuyons. Ainsi, nous introduisons la notion de document et ses reformulations par son passage au numériqu...

La réponse automatique comme solution à la gestion des relations avec la clientèle Une application de la question-réponse

Today, more and more companies are facing an over-abundance of questions from their customers who now use an electronic medium to communicate rather than a more traditional medium such as mail or telephone. In this paper, we discuss the use of techniques developed in the area of question-answering to improve customer service management by responding automatically to customer questions. We justi...

Science Fiction and Macdonald's Polynomials

This work studies the remarkable relationships that hold among certain m-tuples of the Garsia-Haiman modules M and corresponding elements of the Macdonald basis. We recall that in 10], M is deened for a partition`n, as the linear span of derivatives of a certain bihomogeneouspolynomial (x; y) in the variables x 1 ; x 2 conjecturedin 6], 10] that M has n! dimensionsand that its bigraded Frobeniu...

Organ printing: fiction or science.

Aggregates of living cells (i.e. model tissue fragments) under appropriate conditions fuse like liquid drops. According to Steinberg's differential adhesion hypothesis (DAH), this may be understood by assuming that cells are motile and tissues made of such cells possess an effective surface tension. Here we show that based on these properties three-dimensional cellular structures of prescribed ...