Zooming In, Zooming Out, and Some Thoughts on Zoom

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 and zooming out of the attentional focus: an FMRI study.

Visuospatial attention can either be "narrowly" focused on (zooming in) or "widely" distributed to (zooming out) different locations in space. In the current functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we investigated the shared and differential neural mechanisms underlying the dynamic "zooming in" and "zooming out" processes while potential distance confounds from visual inputs between zoomin...

Zooming-in zooming-out: a novel method to scale up local innovations and sustainable technologies

Based on two case studies from Bangladesh and Benin, the role of video in scaling up sustainable rice technologies is assessed. Both process and outcomes of participatory research increased the effectiveness of educational videos. At the same time, during the production of the videos researchers and development workers learnt about local innovations and changed their attitude towards working wi...

Zooming in on Zinc