A Convergent Approach to the Viability of the Dynamical Systems: The Cognitive Value of Complexity

The integration of information and industrial technologies, digitalization and differentiation of sciences are accompanied by an increase in various types of complexity. This limits the capabilities of computer modelling, data mining, and predictive analytics. The increasing cognitive complexity of information flows and their diversity creates problems of safety, reliability and stability of the functioning of a complex dynamic system in extreme conditions. Here we show the possibility of cognitive visualization of signals of different nature through their geometrization in the form of a topological 3D model of functioning. Its projections are spatio-temporal signatures, the configurations of which reflect the dynamic, energetic and structural features of the model. An increase in the number of components of the signature configuration and its area under external influence indicates an increase in structural and functional complexity. Therefore, the signal structure can be analyzed in real time using complementary probabilistic and deterministic methods. A set of tools for the synthesis and analysis of 3D models has innovative potential for monitoring the functioning of elements of complex dynamic systems, risk management and predictive analytics.

Cyber Threat Hunting

Security and Information Event Management (SIEM) systems require significant manual input; SIEM tools with machine learning minimizes this effort but are reactive and only effective if known attack patterns are captured by the configured rules and queries. Cyber threat hunting, a proactive method of detecting cyber threats without necessarily knowing the rules or pre-defined knowledge of threats, still requires significant manual effort and is largely missing the required machine intelligence to deploy autonomous analysis. This paper proposes a novel and interactive cognitive and predictive threat-hunting prototype tool to minimize manual configuration tasks by using machine intelligence and autonomous analytical capabilities. This tool adds proactive threat-hunting capabilities by extracting unique network communication behaviors from multiple endpoints autonomously while also providing an interactive UI with minimal configuration requirements and various cognitive visualization techniques to help cyber experts quickly spot events of cyber significance from high-dimensional data.

Means of visualization in teaching ukrainian as a foreign language to modern students with clip way of thinking

The purpose of the research is to prove the effectiveness of the use of visualization in the process of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language to students with clip way of thinking. The following methods have been used, namely: analysis, synthesis, comparison, systematization and generalization of scientific literature; testing and surveys; pedagogical experiment; quantitative and qualitative analysis of data, interpretation and generalization of the research results. The essence of visualization means has been revealed; the expediency of their use in the methodology of teaching foreign students the Ukrainian language has been substantiated. It has been proven that the role of Ukrainian teachers lies in considering all new trends in teaching, integrating computer perception of information by foreign students into teaching technology and using cognitive visualization in order to intensify the learning process.

Regular Two-Dimensional Packing of Congruent Objects: Cognitive Analysis of Honeycomb Constructions

A new approach to investigate the two-dimensional, regular packing of arbitrary geometric objects (GOs),using cognitive visualization, is presented. GOs correspond to congruent non-convex polygons with their associated coordinate system. The origins of these coordinate systems are accepted by object poles. The approach considered is based on cognitive processes that are forms of heuristic judgments. According to the first heuristic judgment, regular packing of congruent GOs on the plane have a honeycomb structure, that is, each GO contacts six neighboring GO, the poles of which are vertices of the pole hexagon in the honeycomb construction of packing. Based on the visualization of the honeycomb constructions a second heuristic judgment is obtained, according to which inside the hexagon of the poles, there are fragments of three GOs. The consequence is a third heuristic judgment on the plane covering density with regular packings of congruent GOs. With the help of cognitive visualization, it is established that inside the hexagon of poles there are fragments of exactly three objects. The fourth heuristic judgment is related to the proposal of a triple lattice packing for regular packing of congruent GOs.

“TECHNOLOGY OF USING E-LEARNING MODELING PROGRAMS IN TEACHING SPECIAL SUBJECTS IN PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION”

Nowadays, the focus on education is to radically reform professional education, that is, to develop e-learning tools based on the concept of learning outcomes. A distinctive feature of the cognitive-visual approach to the development of electronic didactics is the concentration of attention through visual support, as the formation of visual models of objects studied taking into account human psychophysiology and demonstration of practical skills of learners, effective organization of the interface with the learning object. Providing feedback on electronic didactic tools, mobile desktop and console platforms, as well as in the browser, based on the principles of design, plays an important role in preparing future engineers for professional activities. Therefore, interactive software was developed through the cognitive visualization of a simple oil distillation laboratory. This virtual learning lab was developed using the Microsoft Visual Studio software package. This, in turn, provides a certain degree of convenience in the introduction of electronic didactic tools in engineering education.

Information visualization in context of modern education megatrends

In light of technological advancement and formation of new visual culture, there arises a vital problem of visual presentation of information for solving new problems and performing a wider range of functions in education. In this regard, visualization should be considered in context of such megatrends as the Prosumer concept, knowledge management, the use of platform services to present information as a single unity. Cognitive visualization as the basis for visual presentation of educational information is represented by five main tendencies which students should take into consideration creating infographics: concentration and generalization of knowledge, expansion of the orientation and presentation functions of visual aids, algorithmization of educational and cognitive actions by visual means, and multicode presentation of information. Experimental training resulted in establishing connections between these megatrends and the cognitive visualization tendencies; besides it revealed that concentration of knowledge and multicode presentation of information were the most difficult information visualization operations for the students when using platform services for creating visual content.

Instruments of subject-to-subject interaction in blended learning: visual didactic regulators

Research background implies changing the mechanisms of subject-to-subject interaction, control, and feedback when transiting to distance and mixed learning; one of the areas of difficulties that arise during such transition is the search for a way to partially compensate for difficulties using new visual didactic tools. Research goal includes searching for new visual didactic tools based on cognitive visualization of knowledge that support and guide educational cognitive activity, interaction, and feedback in the context of distance and classroom learning. The authors use a method for analyzing the development of visual tools based on the criterion of implementing cognitive principles of knowledge representation; a method for logical and semantic modeling of knowledge using universal educational actions; a method for constructing visual tools based on graphical visualization of logical and semantic modeling of knowledge presented in natural language (the language of study). New visual didactic tools developed by the authors, and implementing illustrative and regulatory functions, are proposed to be called “visual didactic regulators of logical and semantic type” and used for subject-to-subject interaction in distance learning. The basis of such tools is also the logical and semantic models proposed by the authors, whose usefulness has been confirmed by long-term testing in the classroom training; currently, regulators are used in distance learning as an experiment.

THE DEVELOPMENT MODEL OF ENGINEERING CREATIVITY IN STUDENTS OF MILITARY INSTITUTIONS

The troops of the national guard of the Russian Federation are equipped with modern models of weapons, special equipment, Informatization tools, engineering weapons that have artificial intelligence in their composition are being developed, " etc., which causes an increase in the requirements for the quality of professional training of future officers. The increasing complexity of military professional activities, the avalanche-like increase in information, the need to develop the ability to quickly and accurately make and implement well-known and own engineering solutions in an unpredictable military environment demonstrates that the most important tasks of modern higher education are not only providing graduates with a system of fundamental and special knowledge and skills, but also developing their professional independence, and this led to the concept of engineering and creative potential in the list of professionally important qualities of an officer. To expedite a special mechanism system compact intense clarity through cognitive visualization of the educational material, thickening of educational knowledge through encoding, consolidation and structuring Principle of cognitive visualization stems from the psychological laws in accordance with which the efficiency of absorption is increased if visibility in training does not only illustrative, but also cognitive function, which leads to active inclusion, along with the left and right hemispheres of the student in the process of assimilation of information, based on the use of logical and semantic modeling, which contributes to the development of engineering and creative potential.