Ontologies as Scale Free Networks: Implications for Theories of Conceptual Change

Learning in the Disciplines: ICLS 2010 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 193-194

  Jacobson, Michael J ^a   Kapur, Manu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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