Nursing theory challenges students to think abstractly and is often a difficult introduction to graduate study. Traditionally, concept analysis is useful in facilitating this abstract thinking. Concept maps are a way to visualize an individual's knowledge about a specific topic. Serial concept maps express the sequential evolution of a student's perceptions of a selected concept. Maps reveal in...

Concept maps have been used in education, policy studies and the philosophy of science to provide a visual representation of knowledge structures and argument forms. They provide a complementary alternative to natural language as a means of communicating knowledge. In many disciplines various forms of concept map are already used as formal knowledge representation systems, for example: semantic...

This paper advocates the use of Formal Concept Analysis and Galois lattices for complex systems analysis. This method provides an overview of a system by indicating its main areas of interest as well as its level of specificity/generality. Moreover, it proposes possible entry points for navigation by identifying the most significant elements of the system. Automatic filtering of outliers is als...

Our paper tries to open a discussion about a new research topic: Topic Maps, which we think it can be interesting to incorporate into software engineering projects as a technical terminology. Not only it is a new profound paradigms shift but also an unknown vision of how to represent knowledge in a smart way. We can approach to the paradigm thanks to the Project EA-2003-52, suportted by the Spa...

Our poster presents some basis which lead us to redesign the Project EA-2003-52 suportted by the Spanish Ministry of Education about subject gateways, and at the same time tries to open a discussion about a new paradigm: Topic Maps, which is not very widespread, nowadays, but we think it can be interesting to incorporate into software engineering projects as a technical terminology. Not only it...

We present an original navigation approach to explore data in the framework of the semantic web. Before navigation, data are represented and integrated by jointly using Topic Maps and description logics. Our navigation approach improves the traditional web navigation with two specificities. First, the navigation paths are semantic instead of structural links. Second, it is a subject-centric ins...

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