Assembling Knowledge

Inflection: Assembling Interdisciplinary Material Knowledge using Knitted Fabric Construction

PAPER NUMBER [TDRG128] This item was submitted to the proceedings of the Loughborough University Textile Design Research Group INTERSECTIONS Conference 2017 by Jane Scott and Elizabeth Gaston. Citation: To be confirmed Additional Information: Publisher: Loughborough University (© The Authors) Rights: This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0...

Tools for Assembling and Managing Scalable Knowledge Bases

A System for Rapidly Assembling Clinical Knowledge through Curation of Automatically Extracted Knowledge from Medical Knowledge Source

Clinical decision support systems have predominantly been rule-based and built on fixed pre-determined associations from clinical knowledge. Their efficacy and accuracy depends on the extent of knowledge captured in these systems in the form of facts and assertions. The current approach to populating these knowledge sources are primarily manual through careful handcrafting and often assisted by...

Assembling different forms of knowledge for participative water management Insights from the Concert’eau game

In the environmental field, water management provides examples of the move towards participative democracy. Indeed, French water policy promotes participative river basin management settings. Such settings place different forms of knowledge in contact with each other, and raise the issue of assembling this plurality within the decision-making process. How to combine scientific, lay and diverse ...

Self-Assembling Robots

One of the grand challenges of robotics is the design of robots that are adaptive and self-sufficient. This can be crucial for robots exposed to environments that are unstructured (in space and time) or not easily accessible for a human operator, such as the inside of a blood vessel, a collapsed building, the deep sea, or the surface of another planet.Modular reconfigurable robots are among the...