Marine ice sheets are continental ice masses resting on bedrock below sea level. Their dynamics are similar to those of land-based ice sheets except that they must couple with the surrounding floating ice shelves at the grounding line, where the ice reaches a critical flotation thickness. In order to predict the evolution of the grounding line as a free boundary, two boundary conditions are req...

There has been a growing interest in the philosophy and constituents of design research by a vast amount of IS-scholars. There are several unresolved concerns and issues in design research (DR). Some examples are the outcomes of design research, the role of theorizing in DR, how to conduct evaluation and validation, and the need for different grounding processes to generate valid knowledge from...

This paper discusses grounding practices used on electric distribution systems above 600 Volts. In particular, the paper concentrates on the three-phase fourwire, multi-grounded neutral system that is extensively used in North America. The paper addresses the benefits of the multi-grounded power system and makes comparisons with other grounding system designs including ungrounded; three-wire si...

Language engineers often point to tight connections between their systems’ linguistic representations and accumulated sensor data as a sign that their systems really mean what they say. While we believe such connections are an important piece in the puzzle of meaning, we argue that perceptual grounding alone does not suffice to explain the specific, stable meanings human speakers attribute to e...

Abstract While controversy about the nature of grounding abounds, our focus is on a question for which particular answer has attracted something like consensus. The concerns relation between partial and full grounding. apparent consensus that former to be defined in terms latter. In this article, we argue standard way doing faces significant problem ought pursue reverse project defining guiding...

Symbol Grounding has originated in the domain of cognitive connectionism as an approach to a model of language acquisition.It has, however, transcended this restricted domain and its most prominent proponents now regard it as a technique which is of general importance to the connectionist-symbolic debate, especially for their integration into a common framework. This paper revisits the claims m...

The research interests of information systems (IS) researchers often lead to a tension between theory development on the one hand and practical application, such as the implementation of computer applications or business processes, on the other. This tension is, for example, made manifest in the various action research approaches typically used in IS research. This paper presents an approach to...

Solutions to the symbol grounding problem, in psychologically plausible cognitive models, have been based on hybrid connectionist/symbolic architectures, on robotic approaches and on connectionist only systems. This paper presents new simulations on the use of neural network architectures for the grounding of symbols on categories. In particular, the connectivity patterns between layers of the ...