Structured conceptualization is a specific form of concept mapping that is a mixed methods participatory approach that combines group processes (brainstorming, sorting, group interpretation) with a sequence of multivariate statistical analyses (multidimensional scaling, hierarchical cluster analysis). Concept mapping's relevance to health care quality and services is described. The basic steps ...

the concept of coordination in supply chain management is different from the viewpoint of the roles of this chain and this difference causes more uncoordination at the entire of the supply chain. hence, regarding to the importance of this subject at the performance of supply chain, the clarification of the coordination concept as a casual model seems very necessary. in this research, the cognit...

The purpose of this paper is to develop and illustrate a performance-centered design (PCD) methodology for finding the underlying structure of ill-defined processes and problems. The context for our theoretical exposition is the fuzzy front-end of new product development (NPD). Within the NPD process, front-end concept definition and selection is central to a firm’s innovation capability becaus...

The local community is a complex socio-economic system, and its ability to function for an indefinitely long period of time (viability) is not investigated sufficiently today. The purpose of the research was, using the cognitive mapping, propose to the local community management developing their own management strategies to ensure its viability. Considering the weakly structured subject area of...

The interoperability of classification schemes is an urgent need for information organization & retrieval. Now, it is often to recognize and build up the mapping relationship between classes by hand in EU project Renardus and other projects. Each class of CLC or DDC can be looked as a concept, and the integrity of concept can be divided into several concept elements expressed by words. We can c...

The present study investigated the influence of concept mapping as a post-reading strategy on EFL learners' critical thinking ability. The study. teaching strategies in nursing education programs. The perception about traditional and modern teaching strategies (brain storming, concept mapping &. Medical education, Concept mapping, Evidence-based medicine, Lecture-based Lecture based teaching me...

This paper summarizes our recent research works on semantic video search. Our solution to this exciting topic is grounded on concept-based video search, which attempts to narrow the semantic gap by first indexing the video content with a large number of pre-trained semantic concepts, and then employing these concepts to respond user’s queries (query-by-concept). We developed novel and effective...