| id |
2d39 |
| authors |
Heylighen A, Heylighen F, Bollen J, Casaer M |
| year |
2005 |
| title |
A DISTRIBUTED MODEL FOR TACIT DESIGN KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE |
| source |
SID 2005, Proceedings of the 4th Social Intelligence Design Workshop, Stanford University, March 2005 (CD Rom) |
| summary |
The distributed cognition approach, and by extension the domain of social intelligence design, attempts to integrate three until recently separate realms: mind, society, and matter. The field offers a heterogeneous collection of
ideas, observations, and case studies, yet lacks a coherent theoretical framework for building models of concrete systems and processes. Despite the intrinsic
complexity of integrating individual, social and technologically-supported intelligence, the paper proposes a relatively simple ‘connectionist’ framework for
conceptualizing a distributed cognitive system. This framework represents shared information sources (documents) as nodes connected by links of variable strength,
which increases interactively with the number of co-occurrences of documents in the patterns of their usage. This connectionist learning procedure captures and
uses the implicit knowledge of its community of users to help them find relevant information, thus supporting an unconscious form of exchange. The principles are
illustrated by an envisaged application to a concrete problem domain: the dynamic sharing of design knowledge among a multitude of architects through a database
of associatively connected building projects. |
| keywords |
connectionism, distributed cognition, tacit knowledge, architectural design |
| series |
other |
| type |
normal paper |
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| full text |
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2005/04/01 13:24 |
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