The widely-used notion of triadic closure has been conceptualized and measured in a variety of ways, most famously the clustering coefficient. This paper proposes a measure of triadic closure in affiliation networks designed to control for the influence of bicliques. In order to avoid arbitrariness, the paper introduces a triadic framework for affiliation networks, within which a range of possi...

The central thesis of this paper is that Rasmussen framed his approach to Cognitive Systems Engineering from the perspective of a Triadic Semiotic Model. This frame became the context for integrating multiple intellectual threads including Control Theory, Information Theory, Ecological Psychology, and Gestalt Psychology into a coherent theoretical framework. The case is made that the triadic se...

Overlay networks are expected to operate in hostile environments where node and link failures are commonplace. One way to make overlay networks robust is to design self-stabilizing overlay networks, i.e., overlay networks that can handle node and link failures without any external supervision. In this paper, we first describe a simple framework, which we call the Transitive Closure Framework (T...

Game Accessibility (GA) has been brought to the front of the video game landscape thanks to a recent but major change in the US law called the Communications and Video Accessibility Act; GA is now a legal obligation for game developers in the US. However, there is a gap between legislation and practice of GA. This study is based upon a previous tentative curriculum framework (TCF) for GA. The q...

Based on Robinson’s Cognition Hypothesis, this study explored the effects of task complexity on the lexical complexity of Iranian EFL students’ argumentative writing.This study was designed to explore the manipulation of cognitive task complexity along +/-single task dimension (a resource dispersing dimension in Robinson’s triadic framework) on Iranian EFL learners’ production in term of lexica...

In everyday life, we often observe unusually frequent interactions among people before or during important events, e.g., people send/receive more greetings to/from their friends on holidays than regular days. We also observe that some videos or hashtags suddenly go viral through people’s sharing on online social networks (OSNs). Do these seemingly different phenomena share a common structure? A...

This paper describes a newly proposed approach towards investigating how social humanoid robots can learn creative conceptualizations through interaction with children in metaphor-guided pretense play using a componential creativity framework. We describe this metaphor-guided pretense play approach and then illustrate it by describing a social robot interaction pretense play scenario between a ...

This paper shows how Componential Explanation as discussed within Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Science relates to Compositional Verification in Computer Science. It is shown how formal techniques and methods developed for Compositional Verification provide a formal basis and automated support for Componential Explanation. The role of formalised interlevel relations is shown to be crucial...

This paper (Part 1) describes the principles of a novel unsupervised adaptive neural network anomaly detection technique, called componential coding, in the context of condition monitoring of electrical machines. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the technique’ s capabilities. The companion paper (Part 2), which follows, assesses componential coding in its application to real data reco...