We present a framework for conceptual blending ? a concept invention method that is advocated in cognitive science as a fundamental, and uniquely human engine for creative thinking. Herein, we employ the search capabilities of ASP to find commonalities among input concepts as part of the blending process, and we show how our approach fits within a generalised conceptual blending workflow. Speci...

The question in the title is the major foci when planning any learning environments. Basically it means that we have to understand how procedural knowledge and conceptual knowledge relate to each other. It seems appropriate to underline that these two types of knowledge must be somehow related when the learning process is our focus. However, it is the variables in the assessment of this process...

We evaluated properties of knowledge resources that can be used for building new semantically and behaviorally motivated resources of health guidance and clinical decision making by modeling patterns of creation, modification and retrieval of medical knowledge. We evaluated statistical properties of Wikipedia articles of general terminology and medical terminology based on 25 most common diagno...

This paper relates properties of operators with the well-known concepts of positive realness and passivity properties in dynamic systems and their associate transfer functions. Those concepts together with very close related ones are first examined from a physical point of view. Then, they are related with hyperstability and properties of transfer functions while the hyperstability theorem is r...

Social network is a social structure that is composed of some agents (generally individuals or organizations) that are connected by one or more kind of dependencies, such as ideas and financial transactions, friends, relatives, Web links, spread of diseases (epidemiology). Social networks exist in different categories some of which could be found in [1]. The results of various studies indicate ...

In this paper we show our development method for executable ontology based business processes. The main goal is the reusable, automatic generation of workflows based on ontologies derived from business process models. In our methodology the focus is given to the mapping the conceptual models to ontology models by using meta-modeling approach. In our proposed approach we establish the links betw...

We present an ecological framework for considering ecosystem degradation and restoration, particularly in rangelands and arid environments. The framework is a synthesis of three conceptual models previously developed by several rangeland and restoration ecologists. We focus first on distinctions and connections between structural and functional components of rangeland ecosystems and then on dis...

It is well known that meaningful knowledge of statistics involves more than simple factual or procedural knowledge of statistics. For an intelligent use of statistics, conceptual understanding of the underlying theory is essential. As conceptual understanding is usually defined as the ability to perceive links and connections between important concepts that may be hierarchically organized, rese...

This article explores the reported use of conceptual combination in Stephen R. Donaldson's development of the idea for his award-winning fantasy series. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. Donaldson's (1991) own account is used to illustrate the general principles of a creative cognition approach to understanding creativity as well as the more specific role of the basic process of...

Whereas numerous studies have examined critical success factors (CSFs) for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation, little work has investigated the underlying causal links in the form of conceptual models. This study develops a casual model for ERP implementation success, using a two-stage approach. In Stage one, 27 online publications on ERP implementation in China were collected, a...