Whenever a reverse engineering method is applied to an old software system, the results are mainly limited to its degree of automation. Additional domain knowledge via a human expert helps to overcome this limitation. Modernizing old procedural software for object-oriented reuse requires domain knowledge as well as a balancing of the recovered information. We have developed a reverse engineerin...

Providing exploratory activities prior to instruction has been shown to facilitate learning. However, questions remain regarding the provision of guidance during the exploration phase. In this study, we replicated and extended a previous experiment by examining the effects of feedback during exploratory problem solving for children with varying levels of prior knowledge. Ninety-five children (M...

The question in the title is the major foci when planning any learning environments. Basically it means that we have to understand how procedural knowledge and conceptual knowledge relate to each other. It seems appropriate to underline that these two types of knowledge must be somehow related when the learning process is our focus. However, it is the variables in the assessment of this process...

Building an intelligent agent, which simulates human-level learning appropriate for learning math, science, or a second language, could potentially benefit both education in understanding human learning, and artificial intelligence in creating human-level intelligence. Recently, we have proposed an efficient approach to acquiring procedural knowledge using transfer learning. However, it operate...

We describe the parallels between findings from cognitive science and neuroscience and Common-Sense Models in four areas: (1) Activation of illness representations by the automatic linkage of symptoms and functional changes with concepts (an integration of declarative and perceptual and procedural knowledge); (2) Action plans for the management of symptoms and disease; (3) Cognitive and behavio...

Information and knowledge management were introduced in the engineering field to help product developers avoid "reinventing the wheel". As PDM and DMS systems manage the whole information about a developed product, no software systems for capturing, managing and analysis of the product development processes are available. This information is usually stored only in the mind of the involved engin...