Mapping an emergent Open Data eco-system

An Angular Open Mapping

Language as an emergent system

Human language is a biological system: All humans are neurologically predisposed to acquire whatever language they are exposed to in their early years. Language itself is socially transmitted. A rich interaction between genetic (brain) structures and social behavior gives rise to what linguists call a “grammar”, which is the knowledge (part innate, part learned) of language complexity found ins...

LUSH: An Organic Eco + Music System

We propose an environment that allows users to create music by leveraging playful visualization and organic interaction. Our attempt to improve ideas drawn from traditional sequencer paradigm has been made in terms of extemporizing music and associating with visualization in real-time. In order to offer different user experience and musical possibility, this system incorporates many techniques,...

An Angular Open Mapping Theorem

The purpose of this paper is to provide a modified open mapping theorem, which also applies to maps which are not open, but whose intersection with a convex cone is relatively open. We give a constructive proof, which for the special maps considered here may be seen as an alternative to the indirect proof of Frankowska’s more general open mapping principle. Open mapping theorems are of utmost i...

Emergent Diversity in an Open-Ended Evolving Virtual Community

Understanding the dynamics of biodiversity has become an important line of research in theoretical ecology and, in particular, conservation biology. However, studying the evolution of ecological communities under traditional modeling approaches based on differential calculus requires species' characteristics to be predefined, which limits the generality of the results. An alternative but less s...