Based on the authors intensive investigation on the oriental dialectics, the paper presents a novel theoretical frame of matter element in the world leading science, extenics dealing with inconsistency or incompatibility, covering the widest range of application area from informatics, system engineering to management and finance. The dialectic matter-element is defined as the integral of all ex...

In this chapter, we outline a vision of Web Intelligence (WI) research from the viewpoint of Brain Informatics (BI), a new interdisciplinary field that systematically studies the mechanisms of human information processing from both the macro and micro viewpoints by combining experimental cognitive neuroscience with advanced information technology. BI studies human brain from the viewpoint of in...

Social Informatics (SI), as originally envisioned by Rob Kling and his collaborators, is a body of research that examines “the social aspects of computerization. ” Based on this definition and a particular notion of the “social, ” great emphasis is put in SI on the interaction of information technologies with their institutional and cultural contexts. This focus has for several decades directed...

Most informatics activity is aimed at reducing unnecessary errors, mistakes and misjudgements at the point of decision, insofar as these arise from inappropriate accessing and processing of data and information. Healthcare professionals use the results of scientific research, when available, and 'big data', when rigorously analysed, as inputs into the probability judgements that need to be made...

Every year since 2017, Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushinsky (YSPU) holds the All-Russian distance team quest "Around informatics" for 7–11-grade students, college and university students of all training areas. The geography is constantly expanding; 1065 teams took part in March-April 2022. includes 100 tasks on topics informatics school course, including Basic Exami...

Comprehension is an ability to understand the meaning of a concept or an action. Comprehension is an important intelligent power of abstract thought and reasoning of humans or intelligent systems. It is highly curious to explore the internal process of comprehension in the brain and to explain its basic mechanisms in cognitive informatics and computational intelligence. This paper presents a fo...

Jiajie Zhang is a cognitive scientist working in healthcare and a professor of health informatics at University of Texas at Houston. Zhang will be the moderator and discussant for this symposium. He will provide an overview of distributed cognition and its importance in healthcare. Distributed cognition provides a unique framework to describe the dynamics, interactions, processes, and knowledge...

A new approach for the construction of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps augmented by knowledge through fuzzy rule-extraction methods for medical decision making is investigated. This new approach develops an augmented Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping based Decision Support System combining knowledge from experts and knowledge from data in the form of fuzzy rules generated from rule-based knowledge discovery methods...

Socially-coupled policy domains, such as public health, are influenced by the collective behavior of millions of individuals who participate in them and respond to policy plans and interventions. Policy-making for these systems is challenging because their complexity and interdependencies that can have cascading consequences. The promise of policy informatics has been to provide computational t...