While still influential, the view that concepts are organized as a hierarchical taxonomy as proposed by Rosch (1973) has been challenged on several occasions. For example, some studies have attributed a larger role to thematic relations (Gentner and Kurtz, 2005; Lin and Murphy, 2001), whereas others have stressed the role of affect in structuring word meaning (Niedenthal et al., 1999). A compre...

This paper presents a novel model of concept representation using a multilevel geometric structure, which is called Latent Semantic Networks. Given a set of documents, the associations among frequently co-occurring terms in any of the documents define naturally a geometric complex, which can then be decomposed into connected components at various levels. This hierarchical model of knowledge rep...

In this article we show how knowledge representation techniques can applied for software architecture. We define a representation model for software architecture concepts. The model is based on MY model (meta modeling in Y), which is a knowledge engineering methodology. It represents software architecture concepts using three branches: component, connector, and architecture. The component branc...

Observations of apparently random phenomena are commonplace in science. However, randomness and Christian belief are often seen as incompatible, both by naturalists and by theists. This article argues that the scientific concept of randomness and the historic Christian understanding of God’s nature are compatible. It argues that the existence of randomness cannot be settled scientifically; neve...

This document presents the results of the seminar “Conceptual Architecture Patterns” of the winter term 2002 in the Hasso–Plattner–Institute. It is a compilation of the student’s elaborations dealing with some conceptual architecture patterns which can be found in literature. One important focus laid on the runtime structures and the presentation of the patterns.

We argue that visual, analogical representations of mathematical concepts can be used by automated theory formation systems to develop further concepts and conjectures in mathematics. We consider the role of visual reasoning in human development of mathematics, and consider some aspects of the relationship between mathematics and the visual, including artists using mathematics as inspiration fo...

The gestures children spontaneously produce when explaining a task predict whether they will subsequently learn that task. Why? Gesture might simply reflect a child's readiness to learn a particular task. Alternatively, gesture might itself play a role in learning the task. To investigate these alternatives, we experimentally manipulated children's gesture during instruction in a new mathematic...

In the search for principles of pattern generation in complex biological systems, an operational approach is presented that embraces both theory and experiment. The central mathematical concepts of self-organization in nonequilibrium systems (including order parameter dynamics, stability, fluctuations, and time scales) are used to show how a large number of empirically observed features of temp...

The learning of Boolean functions has been the focus of a number of papers in computer science in the last few years, many of which have been stimulated by the work of Valiant [3, 41. We also mention especially the recent long article by Blumer et al. [l] on learnability for various classes of concepts including especially Boolean classes. The thrust of most of this theoretical work has essenti...

The present paper argues that a systems theory epistemology (and particularly the notion of hierarchical recursive organization) provides the critical theoretical context within which the significance of Friston's (2010a) Free Energy Principle (FEP) for both evolution and psychoanalysis is best understood. Within this perspective, the FEP occupies a particular level of the hierarchical organiza...