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Despite the intrinsic complexity of integrating individual, social and technologically supported intelligence, the paper proposes a relatively simple ‘connectionist’ framework for conceptualizing distributed cognitive systems. Shared information sources (documents) are represented as nodes connected by links of variable strength, which increases as the documents co-occur in the usage patterns. This learning procedure captures and exploits its users’ implicit knowledge to help them find relevant information, thus supporting an unconscious form of exchange. These principles are applied to a concrete problem domain: architects sharing design knowledge through a database of associatively connected building projects.
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Heylighen, A., Heylighen, F., Bollen, J. et al. Distributed (design) knowledge exchange. AI & Soc 22, 145–154 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-007-0122-5
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