Re: Abstraction and hierarchical decomposition

2008-10-22 Thread Miguel P. Monteiro
Em Qua, Outubro 22, 2008 5:05 pm, Frank Wales escreveu: > Miguel P. Monteiro wrote: >> From what I could learn, both abstraction and generalisation seem to be ways >> to "navigate" through hierarchical structures of concepts. These are useful to compress >> information in an efficient way: a conc

Re: Abstraction and hierarchical decomposition

2008-10-22 Thread Frank Wales
Miguel P. Monteiro wrote: > From what I could learn, both abstraction and generalisation seem to be ways > to > "navigate" through hierarchical structures of concepts. These are useful to > compress > information in an efficient way: a concept at one level can subsume all > concepts at > lower l

Re: Abstraction and hierarchical decomposition

2008-10-22 Thread Lorin Hochstein
Miguel, You may find the following reference useful: von Mayrhauser, A. and. Vans, A., (1995). Program Understanding: Models and Experiments, In M.C. Yovits and M.V. Zelkowitz reds), Advances in Computers, Vol. 40, (pp. 1 - 38), Academic Press, Inc It is a survey of various cognition models that

Abstraction and hierarchical decomposition

2008-10-22 Thread Miguel P. Monteiro
I would like to thank all who replied to my previous post, regarding complexity. As I said in that post, my interest in cognitive psychology is motivated by software engineering (SE). I agree that abstraction, as well as language/tool support for it, is generally considered the way to tackle com