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                                     Johan Bollen

   New homepages: [externallink.GIF] [2]at Old Dominion University and
   [externallink.GIF] [3]at Los Alamos National Laboratory!

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   [5][JOHANBcheap.gif] Lic. Experimental Psychology
                        Assistant Researcher FWO (Fund for Scientific Research- Flanders)
                        Project leader [6]Dr. Francis Heylighen.
                        Address:
                        [7]Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Center Leo Apostel
                        Pleinlaan 2, 1050 [8]Brussels, [9]Belgium.
                        Tel. : + 32 2 644 26 77. & E- Mail: [10]jbollen [ at ] vub.ac.be
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   Research interests:

   [11]Learning hypertext networks, associative and distributed knowledge
   representation, dynamical and evolutionary approaches to knowledge development

   Present research:

   I'm currently investigating learning rules that use the paths users follow
   through a hypertext to re-organise the network, so that it restructures itself
   into a representation of the users shared semantic structure.

   The assumption that led to the development of hypertext/media interfaces is that
   hypertext networks, because they use associative and distributed representations
   of knowledge, are in some way more compatible with how humans store and retrieve
   information. Networks that more accurately represent their users' semantical
   structure will thus allow users to retrieve information more effectively.

   As most hypertext networks, such as the WWW, are at present developped and
   designed by human web masters, that have only very limited knowledge and insight
   into what a good hyper structure should be, it can be expected that information
   retrieval and storage is at present highly inefficient. Our research suggests a
   number of locally learning rules that can automatically, without human
   intervention, make hypertext networks re-organise and streamline their structure

   This link points to a short paper titled [12]Adaptive Hypertext Networks That
   Learn The Common Semantics Of Their Users., which will be published in the
   proceedings of the International Congres on Cybernetics in Namur, August 21-25,
   1995. You are invited to read this article and mail reactions, criticism or
   suggestions via the above provided E-mail link.

   [JohanNASA.GIF]

   Photo: giving a seminar on learning webs at Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA.
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   Jan 31, 1994 (created)

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