Cognitive Architectures (CAs) are the core of artificial cognitive systems. A CA is supposed to specify the human brain at a level of abstraction suitable for explaining how it achieves the functions of the mind. Over the years a number of distinct CAs have been proposed by different authors and their limitations and potentials were investigated. These CAs are usually classified as symbolic and...

In Muslim culture, especially in Iranian a ware represents abundance, embodies the source of wealth and life itself. The images on pottery usually have symbolic meaning. paper gives an analysis its decoration, structural elements as well technique manufacturing, permitting to form opinion about authenticity.

Xa-lan is a computer program written in Common-LISP to generate music scores with a high level of notational/symbolic expressivity. Generation is driven by audio-analysis of melodic profiles. Once a melodic contour is input to the software, graphic transformations of the original profile stochastically control the different notational elements of the score. The Xa-lan routines display their fin...

230 Abstract — The paper is focused on a new and practical approach to perform sensitivity and tolerance analysis of analog lumped circuits. Any linear circuit can contain passive elements, magnetically coupled inductors, excess elements, and any type of independent and controlled sources. Special strategies based on symbolic methods are used in order to reduce the computational effort and to m...

We propose a conceptually and technically neat method to identify known semantic patterns close to a novel pattern. This occurs in the context of a system to acquire knowledge incrementally from systematically processed expository technical text. This semiautomatic system requires the user to respond to specific multiple-choice questions about the current sentence. The questions are prepared fr...

The paper presents a logical framework for the modelling of context aware systems. The framework consists of three first order languages that together make it possible to represent all aspects of such systems and which thus provide a transparent modelling framework. The framework is constructed for the use in semantic modelling of context aware systems and models can for most parts easily be im...

In order to establish patterns of materialization of the beliefs we are going to consider that these have defined mathematical structures. It will allow us to understand better processes of the textual, architectonic, normative, educative, etc., materialization of an ideology. The materialization is the conversion by means of certain mathematical correspondences, of an abstract set whose elemen...

This paper examines existing metadata standards for describing music related information in the context of Chinese music tradition. With most research attention focusing on Western music, research into computational methods and knowledge representation for world music is still in its infancy. Following the introduction of symbolic elements in the Chinese traditional system, a comparison between...

We introduce a general method to infer the directional information flow between populations whose elements are described by n-dimensional vectors of symbolic attributes. The method is based on the Jensen-Shannon divergence and on the Shannon entropy and has a wide range of application. We show here the results of two applications: first we extract the network of genetic flow between meadows of ...

This paper presents a computational environment for teaching of control systems: Modsym. The software implements a graphical interface for physical systems modeling using graphs and calculates systems transfer functions in symbolic form. ModSym generalizes elements and dynamics variables of some physical systems based on the energy concept. This approach allows to represent and to connect eleme...