KSI Software

Concept Mapping Software

Concept Mapping Software

Common features (used by all of the software below)

The BNF diagrams for CMap-related programs. This gives the storage and transmission formats for concept maps and constraint graphs.

CMap C++ Class Library

CMap is a C++ class library which is used by the KSIMapper program for most of its functionality. KSIMapper is not much more than a simple demo program for CMap.

CMap includes classes for constructing flexible concept maps: Nodes and arcs. Nodes may be any of several shapes (easy to extend), any fill color, border color, text color. Arcs are of arity 1 or more, labeled or unlabeled, directed or undirected, any line or text color, etc, etc.

The documentation is somewhat out-of-date, but I promise to update it in the near future.

The CMap library and related code materials

JCMap Java Class Library

JMap is a Java class library for concept map programs. It is modeled after CMap.

KSIMapper

The KSIMapper program is a concept map editing program that runs on Windows95. It is basically just a demo program for CMap. You can download both the program (W95) and the source code.

There is also a netscape plug-in version of KSIMapper. You can download it from here too.

For further information:

"Multi-user Interactive Concept Maps for the Learning Web" (submitted to ED-MEDIA'97)
"Toward a Multi-User, Programmable Web Concept Mapping "Shell" to Handle Multiple Formalisms" (KAW'96)
"A Demonstration of KSIMapper and Constraint Graphs" (KAW'96)
"Embedded Interactive Concept Maps in Web Documents" (WebNet'96) (also see the corresponding slide show)

JKSIMapper

JKSIMapper is the Java counterpart to KSIMapper. It runs as a stand-alone java application, but there is also a java applet (runs inside an HTML document) version. These should also be available when we get it updated to the new storage format.

For further information:

"Distributed Concept Mapping Collaboration using Java" (KAW'96)

Constraint Graphs

Constraint graphs is a concept mapping program similar to CMap, except that it is capable of constraining the user interface to allow only syntactically legal constructs according to any number of visual "formalisms".

You will eventually be able to download a Windows95 version and a Netscape Plugin version for Windows95 from this site.

For further information:

Constraint Graphs: A Concept Map Meta-Language, Rob Kremer, PhD dissertation, University of Calgary.
The formal specification of constraint graphs
"A Concept Mapping Tool to Emulate Multiple Knowledge Representation Formalisms", Rob Kremer, AAAI Spring Symposium, Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Management Stanford, University, March 24-26, 1997)
"Toward a Multi-User, Programmable Web Concept Mapping "Shell" to Handle Multiple Formalisms", Rob Kremer, KAW'96
"A Demonstration of KSIMapper and Constraint Graphs" Rob Kremer, KAW'96