Advances in Cognitive Systems
Papers from the 2011 AAAI Fall Symposium
Pat Langley, Program Chair
Technical Report FS-11-01. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
Contents
Acquiring Commonsense Knowledge for a Cognitive Agent
James Allen
Explorations in ACT-R Based Cognitive Modeling — Chunks, Inheritance, Production Matching and Memory in Language Analysis
Jerry T. Ball
Solving Puzzles Described in English by Automated Translation to Answer Set Programming and Learning How To Do That Translation
Chitta Baral, Juraj Dzifcak
Memory-Centred Architectures: Perspectives on Human-Level Cognitive Competencies
Paul Edward Baxter, Rachel Wood, Anthony Morse, Tony Belpaeme
Cognitive Assistants for Evidence-Based Reasoning Tasks
Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Gheorghe Tecuci, David Schum
An Investigation into the Utility of Episodic Memory for Cognitive Architectures
Ladislau Boloni
Recognizing Deception: A Model of Dynamic Belief Attribution
Will Bridewell, Alistair Isaac
Tool Use Learning in Robots
Solly Brown, Claude Sammut
Interoperating Learning Mechanisms in a Cognitive Architecture
Dongkyu Choi, Stellan Ohlsson
Toward an Integrated Metacognitive Architecture
Michael T. Cox, Tim Oates, Don Perlis
Effective and Efficient Management of Soar's Working Memory via Base-Level Activation
Nate Derbinsky, John E. Laird
The Role of Knowledge and Certainty in Understanding for Dialogue
Susan L. Epstein, Rebecca Passonneau, Joshua Gordon, Tiziana Ligorio
Using Scone's Multiple-Context Mechanism to Emulate Human-Like Reasoning
Scott E. Fahlman
Ziggurat: Steps Toward a General Episodic Memory
Zachary Faltersack, Brian Burns, Andrew Nuxoll, Tanya L. Crenshaw
A Cognitive Model for Collaborative Agents
George Ferguson, James Allen
Constructing and Revising Commonsense Science Explanations: A Metareasoning Approach
Scott Friedman, Kenneth D. Forbus, Bruce Sherin
A Novel Strategy for Hybridizing Subsymbolic and Symbolic Learning and Representation
Ben Goertzel
Evaluating Integrated, Knowledge-Rich Cognitive Systems
Randolph M. Jones, Robert E. Wray, III
Humanlike Problem Solving in the Context of the Traveling Salesperson Problem
Alexandra Kirsch
Representing and Reasoning About Spatial Regions Defined by Context
Matthew Klenk, Nick Hawes, Kate Lockwood
A Case Study in Integrating Probabilistic Decision Making and Learning in a Symbolic Cognitive Architecture: Soar Plays Dice
John Edwin Laird, Nate Derbinsky, Miller Tinkerhess
Preliminary Evaluation of Long-term Memories for Fulfilling Delayed Intentions
Justin Li, John Laird
Improving Acquisition of Teleoreactive Logic Programs through Representation Change
Nan Li, David J. Stracuzzi, Pat Langley
In Defense of the Neo-Piagetian Approach to Modeling and Engineering Human-Level Cognitive Systems
John Licato, Selmer Bringsjord
An Elaboration Account of Insight
Christopher James MacLellan
Reasoning in the Absence of Goals
Mary Lou Maher, Kathryn E Merrick, Benjamin Graham
Towards a Domain-Independent Computational Framework for Theory Blending
Maricarmen Martinez, Tarek Besold, Ahmed Abdel-Fattah, Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, Helmar Gust, Martin Schmidt, Ulf Krumnack
The Location of Words: Evidence from Generation and Spatial Description
David D. McDonald
Fractally Finding the Odd One Out: An Analogical Strategy For Noticing Novelty
Keith McGreggor, Ashok Goel
Reference-Related Memory Management in Intelligent Agents Emulating Humans
Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale
Towards Situated, Interactive, Instructable Agents in a Cognitive Architecture
Shiwali Mohan, John E. Laird
Towards a Cognitive Model for Human Wayfinding Behavior in Regionalized Environments
Sushobhan Nayak, Varunesh Mishra, Amitabha Mukerjee
Mechanisms Meet Content: Integrating Cognitive Architectures And Ontologies
Alessandro Oltramari, Christian Lebiere
Bridging Dichotomies in Cognitive Architectures for Virtual Humans
Paul Rosenbloom
Intelligent Software Individuals Based on the Leonardo System
Erik Sandewall
Worlds as a Unifying Element of Knowledge Representation
J. R. Scally, Nicholas L. Cassimatis, Hiroyuki Uchida
Towards Adequate Knowledge and Natural Inference)
Lenhart K. Schubert, Jonathan Gordon, Karl Stratos, Adina Rubinoff
Modeling Learner’s Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies in an Open-Ended Learning Environment
James René Segedy, John S. Kinnebrew, Gautam Biswas
The Social Agency Problem
Daniel G. Shapiro
A Plausibility-Based Approach to Incremental Inference
David John Stracuzzi
Communicating, Interpreting, and Executing High-Level Instructions for Human-Robot Interaction
Nishant Trivedi, Pat Langley, Paul Schermerhorn, Matthias Scheutz
Building Human-Level AI for Real-Time Strategy Games
Ben George Weber, Michael Mateas, Arnav Jhala
Protocols for Reference Sharing in a Belief Ascription Model of Communication
Yorick Wilks
The Strong Story Hypothesis and the Directed Perception Hypothesis
Patrick Henry Winston
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