traditional leveraging statistical methods for analyzing today’s large volumes of spatial data have high computational burdens. to eliminate the deficiency, relatively modern data mining techniques have been recently applied in different spatial analysis tasks with the purpose of autonomous knowledge extraction from high-volume spatial data. fortunately, geospatial data is considered a proper s...

The capitalization of know-how, knowledge management, and the control of the constantly growing information mass has become the new strategic challenge for organizations that aim to capture the entire wealth of knowledge (tacit and explicit). Thus, knowledge mapping is a means of (cognitive) navigation to access the resources of the strategic heritage knowledge of an organization. In this paper...

Knowledge-based predictive mapping is a kind of mapping approach which links the existing geo-spatial data and knowledge to predict the status of unknown geographical phenomena. The knowledge reflects the relationships between the known environmental conditions and the phenomenon to be predicted. In the field of natural resource inventory, such a mapping approach is very valuable. However, stan...

The present study deals with the implementation of concept mapping in grade 5 of German high school. Concept mapping was used as a means of knowledge consolidation. In order to check, if concept mapping positively affects a student’s knowledge gain we compared two instructional treatments: a hands-on instruction with an additional concept mapping phase for knowledge consolidation and a hands-on...

This research has been supported by grants from the CISE/IIS/CSS Division of the U.S. National Science Foundation and the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (CISE/EEC) to the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) at the University of California, Irvine. Industry sponsors include: ATL Products, the Boeing Company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Canon Inf...

Knowledge Map is an external visual representation of an individual's ideational knowledge (also called cognitive structure, or propositional, declarative or conceptual), and we deal with two methodologies to produce such representations, Concept Mapping and Ideational Knowledge Mapping. This paper describes and shows samples of the maps the two methodologies produce, compares their graphic ele...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the conceptual framework and principles to guide knowledge mapping to foster critical and creative thinking in open content environments. We introduce knowledge mapping techniques and tools and present examples of knowledge maps applied to open learning. Then we present some principles to develop thinking skills, highlighting the importance of mapping techniq...