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You are hereby invited to our nineteenth "Evolution, Complexity and
Cognition (ECCO)" seminar of 2005:
Postext: a cognitively-apt
formalism for knowledge management
by
Tom Erez
Place: room 3C204 (building C, 3rd floor), VUB campus
Oefenplein
Time: Thursday,
June 23, at 17:30 h.
(note: this is not on the usual Friday!)
Abstract:
Recently we have presented Postext, a new approach to hypermedia
based on an interactive implementation of Visual Browsing. The novel
element of the system is a dynamical map in which the structure can be
changes as well as observed. After a preliminary implementation (that
can be experienced at http://complexity.huji.ac.il ), we realized that
our system is prone to visual clutter. This challenge led us to
propose a new structure for interconnected hypermedia. The formalism
shares properties with other progressive approaches to HyperMedia
(such as the organization scheme of the Principia Cybernetica).
However, the novelty of the proposed structure lies in its divergence
from standard graph theory, a divergence enabled by the visual
explication of the information landscape. The formalism can be
interpreted as a new cognitive metaphor, integrating associativity and
context-dependent hierarchy.
More info:
- A. Shalit, T. Erez, A.a Deters, U. Hershberg, E. Shir, S. Solomon: Postext - A Mind for Society. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2005: 24-40.
- Try out Postext on the web: http://complexity.huji.ac.il
ECCO seminar programme coming weeks
This is provisionally the last ECCO seminar of the academic year.
We are likely to have two or three seminars by visiting researchers
during summer, and will then restart our weekly program in
October.
ECCO seminars normally take place each Friday at 17h30 in room
3C204 of the VUB Campus Etterbeek. Everyone interested is welcome. The
seminars are very interactive, with small groups (about 8-10 people).
The intention is to discuss in depth the research being proposed, and
to look for interdisciplinary connections with other ECCO-related
themes. Seminars last about two hours, after which the remaining
participants go to take a drink or a snack in the Opinio Café on the
campus, to continue the discussion in a more relaxed setting.
--
Francis Heylighen
"Evolution, Complexity and Cognition" research group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
