Lock-ins, Canalization, Functional Dependency:
Where Does This All Lead to?
Lock-ins, Canalization, Functional Dependency:
Where Does This All Lead to?
In this talk I will point out the importance of the three concepts, how
they relate to each other and how they contribute to cognitive processes
ranging from artificial life to distributed information systems. In
particular, I will outline implementation principles for serendipitous web
agents that cope with information overload in an expectation-driven way. In
contrast to information retrieval agents, the agents' goal is to find out
general systematic properties of web links which are hidden from a human
web designers and users.