Models, Metaphors and Symbols for Information and Knowledge Systems

Intelligent knowledge-based models and methodologies for complex information systems

Complex information systems require more and more advanced knowledge representation, management, and discovery tools and techniques, which converge in a collection of intelligent knowledge-based models and methodologies of emerging interest to research communities. This poses new challenges on the issue of devising innovative methodologies and paradigms in the context of a broad framework encom...

Mixed Metaphors in Cyberspace: Property in Information and Information Systems

Models, morals, and metaphors

By Leo P. Kadanoff1 February 2002, page 10 Games of chance are often used as conceptual models of random processes in nature. For example, an exhibit on the heart in Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry includes a kind of pinball machine. After the balls bounce somewhat randomly through this machine, they fall into bins symbolizing the different states of health of one’s heart. One can bias...

Metaphors and Models

Much of one’s knowledge of a task domain is in the form of simple facts and procedures. While these facts and procedures may vary from domain to domain, there is often substantial &nilarity in the “abstract structure” of the knowledge. For example, the notion of a hierarchy is ‘found in biological taxonomy, the geological classification of time, and the organization chart of a corporation. One ...

efl learners collocational knowledge in writing and translation

این مطالعه به بررسی دانش همنشین های دانشجویان زبان انگلیسی فارسی زبان می پردازد. در ابتدا، ارتباط یین دانش عمومی زبان و دانش همنشین های زبان آموزان مورد بررسی قرار می گیرد. دومین هدف این مطالعه بررسی استراتژیهای مورد استفاده در ترجمه همنشین های انگلیسی به فارسی است. در نهایت، خطا های زبان آموزان در تولید و درک همنشین ها مورد آنالیز و بررسی قرار می گیرد. دویست و بیست هفت دانشجوی زبان در این مطال...