Due to the increasing amount and complexity of knowledge and information in many domains, students who self-regulate their study in e-learning scenarios often suffer from cognitive overload, as well as conceptual and navigational disorientation. Particularly, when studying in resource-based learning scenarios with complex and ill-structured subject-matter content, there is a need for both effec...

Understanding computer system hardware, including how computers operate, is essential for undergraduate students in engineering and science. Literature shows learning organization assembly language often find fundamental concepts difficult to comprehend within the topic materials. Tools have been introduced improve students’ comprehension of interaction between architecture, operating system. O...

Erratum to “A novel tensor distribution model for the diffusion-weighted MR signal” [NeuroImage 37 (2007) 164–176] Bing Jian, Baba C. Vemuri,⁎ Evren Özarslan, Paul R. Carney, and Thomas H. Mareci Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, P.O. Box 116120, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA Section on Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics, LIMB, NICHD, National In...

Background and our research goal Divergent exploration of an ontology Background ■Ontology: It is important that the ontology captures the essential conceptual structure of the target world as generally as possible. ■Domain experts often want to understand the target world from the domain-specific viewpoints in which they are interested. In many cases their interests are different, even if they...

This paper examines the implications of cross-linguistic multifunctionality patterns, as described by semantic maps, in terms of mental representation, that is, to what extent these patterns tell us something about the existence of a relationship between different conceptual situations that is perceived by speakers and is arguably represented in a speaker’s mind. By conceptual situation is mean...

Topic Maps are means for representing sophisticated, conceptual indexes of any information collection for the purpose of semantic information integration. To properly fulfil this purpose, the generation of Topic Maps has to base on a solid theory. This paper proposes the Observation Principle as the theoretical fundament of a future scientific discipline Topic Maps Engineering. SemanticTalk gen...