Towards a manager's mental model: Conceptual change through business simulation

Towards a Neural Model of Mental Simulation

We develop a general neural network-based architecture for the process of mental simulation, initially treated at a somewhat abstract level. To develop the theory further it is shown how the theory can handle observational learning as a specific form of mental simulation: simulations are presented of simple paradigms and results obtained on children undergoing tests on observational learning. Q...

Towards Use Case and Conceptual Models through Business Modeling1

A guide to requirements modeling is presented in this paper, in which use cases and the conceptual model are directly obtained from a business modeling based on UML activity diagrams. After determining the business processes of the organization, and describing their workflows by means of activity diagrams, use cases are elicited and structured starting from the activities of each process, while...

Mental Modeling in Conceptual Change

Effectiveness of holistic mental model confrontation in driving conceptual change

Prior research on conceptual change has identified multiple kinds of misconceptions at different levels of representational complexity including false beliefs, flawed mental models, and incorrect ontological categories. We hypothesized that conceptual change of a mental model requires change in the system of relations between the features of the prior model. To test this hypothesis, we compared...

Towards a Model of Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition Through Directed Experimentation

Most current Art i f ic ial Intelligence systems require a complete and correct model of their domain of application. However, for any domain of reasonable size, it is not feasible to construct such a model. The main thrust of this project is to bu i ld a system that can continuously update its model through a constant monitoring of the real wor ld . The project involves the development of a sy...