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Information Science & Library Science","Information Science & Library Science
The question of knowledge construction can be regarded as a question o
f cognition in relation to action. Callon and al. have suggested inter
active processes mixing both cognitive and social aspects of knowledge
or technology. Both actors and interactions can usually be described
by texts, and namely, by words. Thus knowledge development can be desc
ribed through key-words network development. The authors have made sim
ulations for knowledge development according to a local positive feed-
back rule within small sets of word associations. In comparison with r
eal data, the simulation results are fairly good. This approach leads
to a general and very simple interaction model describing knowledge de
velopment. In this model, as opposed to usual cybernetics, actors cons
tantly change, building a common scenario in relation to a mutual defi
nition rule.