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Zooming In, Zooming Out

This is an exploratory paper about combining logics, combining theories and combining structures. Typically when one applies logic to such areas as computer science, artificial intelligence or linguistics, one encounters hybrid ontologies. The aim of this paper is to identify plausible strategies for coping with ontological richness.

Zooming In, Zooming Out: A Framework for Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms

We present a framework of algorithms and techniques involving hierarchical genetic algorithms. These algorithms attempt to generate models and solutions at both the structural and atomic levels simultaneously using atomic and global chromosomes. Complex adaptive emergent systems (CAESs) are comprised of heterogeneous, interacting, adaptive agents that exhibit the properties of self-organization...

Zooming in on Zinc

Zooming in and out from the mental number line: evidence for a number range effect.

The representation of numbers is commonly viewed as an ordered continuum of magnitudes, referred to as the mental number line. Previous work has repeatedly shown that number representations evoked by a given task can be easily altered, yielding an ongoing discussion about the basic properties of the mental number line and how malleable they are. Here we studied whether the resolution of the men...

Zooming in on spatial scaling: preschool children and adults use mental transformations to scale spaces.

Spatial scaling is an important prerequisite for many spatial tasks and involves an understanding of how distances in different-sized spaces correspond. Previous studies have found evidence for such an understanding in preschoolers; however, the mental processes involved remain unclear. In the present study, we investigated whether children and adults use mental transformations to scale distanc...