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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"knowledge maps"”.
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Making Representations Matter: Understanding Practitioner Experience in Participatory Sensemaking
… visual representations (pictures, diagrams, knowledge maps) coherent, engaging and useful for groups tackling complex societal and organizational challenges. This thesis develops and applies a method to analyze, characterize, and compare instances of participatory representational practice in …
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Automated selection of topographic base information for thematic maps
Modern GIS are capable of producing well designed maps but offer little assistance to users with little cartographc knowledge. Maps which are produced by such users may have a lot of cartographic errors and be of poor design. Thus, it is very necessary to build cartographic knowledge into GIS to …
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A Knowledge Map-Centric Feedback-Based Approach to Information Modeling and Academic Assessment
… research presents a modern approach to modeling knowledge and evaluating students. Based upon the model of a closed-loop feedback controller it considers education as a system with an instructor determining the set of knowledge he or she wishes to impart to students, the instruction method as a …
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A Decision-Support Framework for Design of Non-Residential Net-Zero Energy Buildings
… complex and collaborative team process involving knowledge sharing of experts leading to the common goal of meeting the Net-Zero Energy (NZE) project objectives. The decisions made in the early stages of design drastically affect the final outcome of design and energy goals. The Architecture, …
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An integrated use of tools to acquire knowledge elements and support decisions in innovations processes
… situations?”. Acquiring and organizing knowledge and information elements can be essential not only to understand but also to eliminate, reduce or control complexity and uncertainty. “Traditional quantitative methods, mathematical (functional) modeling and simulation will simply not …