Promisingness Judgments as Facilitators of Knowledge Building in Elementary Science Bodong Chen Doctor of Philosophy Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto 2014 Recognizing promising ideas is an important component of expertise and creativity (Bereiter & Scardamalia, 1993; Csikszentmihalyi, 2009; Gardner, 1994). The goal ...

AKIRA is an open-source framework for agent-based cognitive and socio-cognitive modeling and simulation. In this introductory paper we explain the underlying theoretical assumptions that lead to its central features, e.g. hybridism of the components, access to a common pool of resources, homeostasis of the system. In order to show the potentiality of AKIRA for cognitive modeling, we provide and...

in iran, entrepreneurship is a new phenomena and the research in this subject especially on women entrepreneurship is very limited. in spite of the fact that most of the iranian women cooperate in economic, social aspects and especially in higher education, the society is not rewarding their contribution and efforts in economic affairs. in this national and broad research, all the factors effec...

based on a gender equity perspective and within a pluralistic civil society, women should have equal rights for presence in and use of urban open spaces. despite this, various factors decrease their presence including inappropriate design of space, as well as socio-cultural obstacles. since women’s major place of presence and activity has traditionally been in or near home, neighborhood open sp...

Many simulators today contain traditional opponents and lack an asymmetric insurgent style adversary. InsurgiSim prototypes an embeddable testbed containing a threat network of agents that one can easily configure and deploy for training and analysis purposes. The insurgent network was constructed inside a socio-cognitive agent framework (FactionSim-PMFserv) that includes: (a) a synthesis of be...