Concept maps consist of nodes representing concepts and links representing the relationship between the concepts. Various studies showed that concept mapping fosters meaningful learning. However, little is known about the specific cognitive processes that are responsible for such mapping effects. A thinking-aloud study was carried out to analyze the relations between cognitive processes during ...

In this article, the authors introduce concept mapping as a useful participatory research method for public health researchers interested in generating hypotheses and developing theory. The authors first provide an overview of concept mapping, which combines qualitative approaches with quantitative analytical tools to produce visual displays of the relationship between ideas. Then, they present...

In the 1960s, Joseph D. Novak (1993) at Cornell University began to study the concept mapping technique. His work was based on the theories of David Ausubel (1968), who stressed the importance of prior knowledge in being able to learn about new concepts. Novak concluded that "Meaningful learning involves the assimilation of new concepts and propositions into existing cognitive structures." A co...

In this article, the authors introduce concept mapping as a useful participatory research method for public health researchers interested in generating hypotheses and developing theory. The authors first provide an overview of concept mapping, which combines qualitative approaches with quantitative analytical tools to produce visual displays of the relationship between ideas. Then, they present...

Concept mapping is important in natural language processing (NLP) for bioinformatics. The UMLS Metathesaurus provides a rich synonym thesaurus and is a popular resource for concept mapping. Query expansion using synonyms for subterm substitutions is an effective technique to increase recall for UMLS concept mapping. Synonyms used to substitute subterms are called element synonyms. The completen...

Ontology mapping represents a promising technique in E-business integration, agent communication and web services. Similarity measure plays an important role in ontology mapping. Investigations show that a multi-similarity measure usually gives a higher quality mapping results introduction to the background knowledge of formal concept analysis, ontology mapping and similarity measure. A hybrid ...

Concept mapping is a simple and intuitive visual form of knowledge representation. Concept maps can be categorized as informal or formal, where the latter is characterized by implementing a semantics model constraining their components. Software engineering is a domain that has successfully adopted formal concept maps to visualize and specify complex systems. Automated tools have been implement...

Concept mapping has become a popular learning tool. However, the processes underlying the task are poorly understood. In the present study, we examined the effect of creating a concept map on the processing of item-specific information. In 2 experiments, subjects learned categorized or ad hoc word lists by making pleasantness ratings, sorting words into categories, or creating a concept map. Me...

In this paper, firstly, we gain some basic properties and characterization theorems of the differential and local sub-differential of the fuzzy mapping, obtain an important result that the local sub-differential of fuzzy mapping is an empty set or a convex set. Secondly, we generalize the concept of local differentiability of fuzzy mapping, and obtain some basic properties about the concept. At...