Visualization is the process of mentally establishing, forming, and acknowledging information aptness to externally communicate it. This paper highlights role that visualization methods play in framing design thinking process. We present a conceptual framework showcase explanatory examples regarding each stage process, identifying its purpose advantages. Finally, we attempt suggest use within a...

Pictorial metaphor is a popular way of expression in creative advertising. It attributes certain desirable quality to the advertised product. We adopt a general twostage computational approach in order to generate apt metaphor ideas for pictorial advertisements. The first stage looks for concepts which have high imageability and the selling premise as one of their prototypical properties. The s...

Abstract Why should we be means-end rational? care whether someone’s mental states exhibit certain formal patterns, like the ones formalized in causal decision theory? This paper establishes a dominance argument for these constraints finite setting. If you violate norms of theory, then your desires will aptness dominated. That is, there some alternative set that could have had, which would more...

This paper details the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique for the optimal design of analog circuits. It is shown the practical suitability of PSO to solve both mono-objective and multiobjective discrete optimization problems. Two application examples are presented: maximizing the voltage gain of a low noise amplifier for the UMTS standard and computing the Pareto front of a biobjective...

This article describes a hybrid tool for collaborative information management and retrieval – procspace – that draws on different approaches in the field in order to show in what way those methods can be combined into a single application targeted for use by researchers in the humanities. Integrating data-mining models (such as the vector-space model) into collaborative text filtering can combi...

One of the hallmarks of human intelligence is the ability to go beyond literal meanings of utterances to infer speakers’ intended meanings, a feat that remains elusive to the most advanced artificial systems. Figurative language such as metaphor, in particular, provides a striking case where complex meanings arise that cannot be derived from the literal semantics alone. For example, My lawyer i...