Concepts are not the same as conventional datatypes

Jackson's assertion that concepts encompass state and behavior that motivates them, beyond what programmers assign to datatypes

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(2015) · Jackson, Daniel

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Holistic information structure and relational wholeness
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Central entity of Jackson's framework: a structure invented to give coherent account of immediate consequences of actions; the building block of software design

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

What exactly is a 'concept' and how do we distinguish good concepts from bad ones?question0.795
Jackson identifies this as a central unresolved research question despite widespread recognition of concept importance
Concepts are the building blocks of software systems, objective features of a system’s design.claim0.780
Asserts that concepts are not just mental but concrete design elements.
concept representationconcept0.773
How a neural network encodes a semantic concept internally, argued to be better captured by manifolds than by atomic features.
There appears to be a systematic relationship between the frequency of concepts and the dictionary size needed to resolve features for them.claim0.766
Feature presence depends on concept frequency in training data, with a threshold scaling inversely with alive features.
Concepts are not just subjective mental constructs, but are objective features of a system's design: increments of functionality that were consciously introduced by a designer to serve particular purposes.concept0.761
Central definition from the abstract.
Software Conceptsconcept0.760
Concepts distinguish one system from another and also define product families.claim0.751
Role of concepts in differentiating software.
Is there a concept lattice?question0.747
Question posed for the driving test many-valued context.