"This book focuses on the use of visualization technologies to assist in the process of better comprehending scientific concepts, data, and applications by highlighting the utilization of visual power and the roles of sensory perceptions, computer graphics, animation, and digital...

In this paper I propose a novel abstract mechanism for the creation and diffusion of knowledge and use an agent based modelling approach to explore it. The mechanism takes into account the relation between the phenomena that agents attempt to explain and the stocks of knowledge available in a...