Many of the difficulties users experience when working with interactive systems arise from misfits between the user’s conceptualisation of the domain and device with which they are working and the conceptualisation implemented within those systems. We report an analytical technique called CASSM (Concept-based Analysis for Surface and Structural Misfits) in which such misfits can be formally rep...

This research report presents an overview of some basic ideas regarding the conceptualisation of a resource description language for business process modelling. This language is an extension to an existing process modelling language — MEMO-OrgML. The basic conceptualisation comprises basic resource types and their mutual relations. It aims to satisfy the needs of different user types and abstra...

In crowdsourced cartographic projects, mappers coordinate their e↵orts through online tools to produce digital geospatial artefacts, such as maps and gazetteers, which were once the exclusive territory of professional surveyors and cartographers. In order to produce meaningful and coherent data, contributors need to negotiate a shared conceptualisation that defines the domain concepts, such as ...

First flush is an important phenomenon commonlyused in stormwater treatment system design where only the highly concentrated initial part of runoff hydrograph subject to treatment. Despite existing methods for estimating first flush, a robust quantitative definition difficult find. This paper discusses novel approach, new parameter introduced analyse variability discharge pollutants at differen...

We describe some experiments which simulate a grounded approach to language acquisition in which a population of autonomous agents without prior linguistic knowledge tries to construct at the same time a conceptualisation of its environment and a shared language. The conceptualisation and language acquisition processes in each individual agent are based on general purpose cognitive capacities, ...