An apprenticeship metaphor is described for programming by example, graphically, which enables untrained end users to add composite operations to a drawing program using constructive methods traditionally employed in drafting. To combat the extraneous activity that plagues naturally-produced traces, interaction is used to constrain induction by suppressing, or at least controlling, variability ...

A NUMBER of proposals have been advanced in recent years for the development of “general systems theory” which, abstracting from properties peculiar to physical, biological, or social systems, would be applicable to all of them. *1 We might well feel that, while the goal is laudable, systems of such diverse kinds could hardly be expected to have any nontrivial properties in common. Metaphor and...

Living systems provide a good metaphor for the coordination of autonomous agents managing tasks according to their role in the system. The study of such systems from the point of view of General Systems Theory would benefit from computational experimentation. This paper proposes an agent-based methodology for system modeling as well as computational tools to develop and test system models. Biol...

Metaphor makes our thoughts more vivid and fills our communication with richer imagery. Furthermore, according to the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) of [26], metaphor also plays an important structural role in the organization and processing of conceptual knowledge. According to this account, the phenomenon of metaphor is not restricted to similarity-based extensions of meanings of individual...

In 2020, the term ‘infodemic’ rose from relative obscurity to becoming a popular catch-all metaphor, representing perils of fast, wide-spreading (false) information about coronavirus pandemic. It featured in thousands academic publications and received widespread attention policymakers media. this article, we trace origins use metaphor examine blind spots inherent seemingly intuitive term. Draw...