John Perry introduced the idea of thought without representation. At first sight, this idea seems odd: we are surely used to consider that a thought about an object is a representation of that object. However, Perry's idea describes an important and pervasive phenomenon in language and thought. The study of this phenomenon highlights unexplored ways in which context contributes to the interpret...

This paper proposes a three-layer cognitive architecture for pervasive and intelligent computing of personal networks. The key element of the proposed architecture is the cognitive layer, which consists of five components, namely the context cognition, the personalization cognition, the resource cognition, the network cognition, and the cognition management. In order to demonstrate the purpose ...

Research on ‘‘modularity’’ has made an important contribution to the study of technical change and economic institutions. It demonstrates that progress in the division of labor in design (technical modularity) has created new opportunities for the organization of firms beyond vertical integration, by fostering vertical specialization in both manufacturing and innovation. However, a small, but g...

OBJECTIVE 1. To conduct a review of the role of informatics in pediatric disaster preparedness using all medical databases. 2. To provide recommendations to improve pediatric disaster preparedness by the application of informatics. METHODS A literature search was conducted using MEDLINE, CINHL and the Cochrane Library using the key words "children" AND "disaster preparedness and disaster" AND...

The process of developing Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards is a complex task and has a steep learning curve. The complexity of the process stems from the need to integrate several disparate applications, each with their own learning curves. Traditional paper-based learning environments do not accommodate the differing learning paces of students in higher education. An e-learning system can...

Although we live in the age of multimedia, most information is still only available in text format. This is especially true in medical informatics. Consequently, research in text mining is an essential area of computer science. With the aid of statistic and linguistic procedures, text mining software attempts to dig out (mine) information from plain text. The aim is to transform data into infor...