Abstract: This paper will review the character set and frame structure employed to transmit channel programs, data, and status information over ESCON links. In addition, the performance aspects of the components of an ESCON adapter card will be discussed. Based on these conceptual discussions, a back-of-the-envelope model of ESCON frame traffic flow will be introduced which will be used to rela...

We propose a KBS testing procedure that uses a KADS conceptual model (CM). The set of V&d Inference Paths is derived from the inference structure, and, a “high level” trace, representing the Czsrrernt Inference Path, is built using the links established between the CM and the KBS. The comparison of this trace to the VIP can lead to modify either the code or the CM.

Attribution theory argues that people assess the locus of causality of achievementrelevant events as either internal or external. Given the frequency of interpersonal interactions in organizations, we posit that a third category—relational attributions— may be used. Drawing on relational perspectives, we lay the conceptual foundation and develop a dyadic theory of relational attributions, propo...

Focusing on the work of Friedrich von Hayek and Vernon Smith, we discuss some conceptual links between Austrian economics and recent work in behavioral game theory and experimental economics. After a brief survey of the main methodological aspects of Austrian and experimental economics, we suggest that common views on subjectivism, individualism, and the role of qualitative explanations and pre...

I propose a conceptual model of field level change that links the processes of inter-organizational learning and de-institutionalization. I offer a series of research propositions that address how a firm and its adversarial stakeholder groups might cooperatively engage over an issue of mutual interest and ultimately create new knowledge together and how this new knowledge might then encourage a...

A simple conceptual model is employed to investigate events, and break the task of coreference resolution into two steps: semantic class detection and similaritybased matching. With this perspective an algorithm is implemented to cluster event mentions in a large-scale corpus. Results on test data from AQUAINT TimeML, which we annotated manually with coreference links, reveal how semantic conve...

We describe a conceptual indexing method using UMLS meta-thesaurus. Concepts are automatically mapped from text using MetaMap software tool for English, and a simplified mapping tool for other languages. The concepts and their semantic links given by UMLS are used to build a Bayesien network. Retrieval process is then an inference process of probabilities or weights. Different types of relation...

Abstract: Personal construct psychology is a theory of individual and group psychological and social processes that takes a constructivist position in modeling human knowledge but bases this on a positivist scientific position that characterizes conceptual structures in axiomatic terms. It provides a fundamental framework for both theoretical and applied studies of knowledge acquisition and rep...

Our natural language understanding system outputs a list of diseases, findings, and appliances found in a chest x-ray report. The system described in this paper links those diseases and findings that are causally related. Using Bayesian networks to model the conceptual and diagnostic information found in a chest x-ray we are able to infer more specific information about the findings that are li...

Hypertext removes some of the constraints of conventional linear text by providing mechanisms for physicaily realizing the conceptual links between related sections of material. This research examines the use of a hypertext browser with a literate program. A literate program has a sequential structure, in that it is divided into sections presented in a particular order, and a hierarchical struc...