Associate Editor: Shelly Dionne Based on construal level theory and trait activation theory, we examined the effect of consideration of future consequences (CFC) on transformational leadership behavior and leadership effectiveness, as well as the potential moderating effects of perceived dynamic work environment in the relationship. The results showed that: (a) CFC is positively related to both...

A common view of the history of morphological research within the tradition of Generative Grammar, and one that the present author has himself retailed on various occasions, goes as follows. As successors to the American Structuralists, early generative grammarians (especially Noam Chomsky, a student of Zellig Harris) inherited the structuralist theory of the morpheme as a basic component of li...

Within the last few years generative modeling techniques have gained attention especially in the context of cultural heritage. As a generative model describes a rather ideal object than a real one, generative techniques are a basis for object description and classification. This procedural knowledge differs from other kinds of knowledge, such as declarative knowledge, in a significant way. It c...

Among the well-established variety of formal grammar types providing a mildly context-sensitive grammar (MCSG) formalism in the sense of Joshi (1985), Stabler’s minimalist grammars (MGs) (Stabler 1997, 1999) come closest to modeling the tools used in the Chomskyan branch of generative syntax known as “minimalism” (Chomsky 1995, 2000, 2001). Interestingly, without there being a rise in (at least...

Based on the previous work by the Design Technology Research Centre in the School of Design of the Hong Kong polytechnic University, we have developed a new generative design framework for the development of creative cultural industries for western China as a collaborative initiative among the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Xian Jiaotong University, Xian Tongli International college, Cultura...

Transformational design integrates design and verification. It combines “correctness by construction” and design creativity by the use of preproven behaviour preserving transformations as design steps. Transformational design is a formal design methodology in which formal aspects are hidden for the designer. Formal aspects of transformational design as a methodology for high-level synthesis, ar...

Tracking the main influences of 19thand 20th-century mathematics, logic and philosophy on pre-1958 American linguistics and especially on early Transformational Generative Grammar (TGG) is an ambitious cross-disciplinary endeavour. Ideally it would call for expertise in the methods of intellectual historiography, the history and content of 20th-century American linguistics, the history and phil...

This section is chiefly concerned with developing a generative transformation model of visual perception, although it addresses related matters and other concerns in later chapters. Most of the patterns described in Chapter 1 are employed by the model in pattern discrimination, and some new patterns are also employed. Most of the work is original, and work anywhere in the section that is not or...

Shepard’s notion of “internalisation” is better interpreted as a simile than a metaphor. A fractal encoding model of visual perception is sketched, in which image elements are transformed in such a way as to maximise symmetry with the current input. This view, in which the transforming system embodies what has been internalised, resolves some problems raised by the metaphoric interpretation.