gilles fauconnier and mark turner have considered the issue of conceptual metaphor as a special case of more general and comprehensive matter. this vast matter is the analysis of mind system mechanism when it exposes to conceptual domains. to describe such a process, fauconnier and turner use the term of mental or conceptual space. they believe that in order to understand much of human thought ...

Conceptual modelling is a promising approach for Web application development, thanks to innovative CASE tools that can transform high-level specifications into executable code. So far, the impact of conceptual modelling has been evaluated mostly on analysis and design. This paper addresses its influence on testing, one of the most important and effort-consuming phases, by investigating how the ...

the study aimed at presenting an appropriate framework for designing & implementing knowledge management projects within research & knowledge-based organizations while focusing on the knowledge culture. first, the available literature was reviewed & the influential indices & factors regarding the knowledge culture were extracted. then, a conceptual model for evaluating the knowledge culture was...

zinc is the first modelling language which supports solver and technique independence. this means that a high level conceptual model can be automatically mapped into an appropriate low level design model for a specific solver or technique. to date, zinc uses three different techniques to solve a model: constraint programming (cp), local search (ls), and mixed integer programming (mip). in this ...

Research on innovative methods for Conceptual Design of Control Strategies (CDCS) is of great theoretical and engineering meaning. In this paper, TRIZ-aided innovation in CDCS was proposed. At first, a systematic approach to build a new theory of inventive problem solving specialized for control strategies (TRIZ-CS) was proposed with its systemic structure was given. Then the Block-Signal analy...

background and purpose: the spices model has been proposed to be used both as a framework for quality improvement in medical education and as a guide for evaluation of curricula. the six strategies of spices are representatives of innovative approaches to medical education, and each one has been considered as a continuum. the present study models a theory-based questionnaire, based on spices, t...