AAAI-96 Workshop on
Computational Cognitive Modeling:
Source of the Power
One-day Workshop. August 5, 1996
(During UAI, KDD, AAAI, and IAAI. Portland, Oregon)
The Workshop Program
9:00 am: Welcome and Introduction. Charles Ling and Ron Sun (Co-Chairs)
9:10 am: Aaron Sloman, The University of Birmingham, UK
What sort of architecture is required for a human-like agent?
9:40 am: Susan L. Epstein and Jack Gelfand, City University of New York, USA
The creation of new problem solving agents from experience with visual
features
10:00 am: Denis Mareschal, Exeter University, UK
Models of Object Permanence: How and Why they Work
10:30 am: coffee break
11:00 am: Pat Langley, Stanford University, USA
An abstract computational model of learning selective sensing skills
11:20 am: Craig S. Miller, Dickinson College, USA
The source of graded performance in a symbolic rule-based model
11:40 am: Christian D. Schunn and Lynne M. Reder, Carnegie Mellon University
Modeling changes in strategy selections over time
12:00 pm: lunch break
1:30 pm: poster session
2:30 pm: Tom Shultz, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Generative Connectionist Models of Cognitive Development: Why They Work
3:00 pm: Garrison W. Cottrell, University of California, San Diego, USA
Selective attention in the acquisition of the past tense
3:30 pm coffee break
4:00 pm: Jeff Elman, University of California, San Diego, USA
States and stacks: Doing computation with a recurrent neural network
4:30 pm: Paul Thagard, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
Evaluating Computational Models of Cognition: Notes from the Analogy Wars
5:00 pm: Tony Veale, Barry Smyth, Diarmuid O'Donoghue, Mark Keane
Representational myopia in cognitive mapping
5:20 pm: Panel and discussions
Panelists: Charles Ling, Ron Sun, Pat Langley, Mike Pazzani.
6:30 pm: end
Poster Presentations:
Tracey Bale and Khurshid Ahmad, University of Surrey, UK
Towards a "nervous system-level" model of early numerical development
Nathalie Chaignaud and Francois Levy, University of Paris-Nord, France
An implementation for human problem solving methods
Lucy Nguyen, Florida State University, USA
Knowledge and learning at multiple levels
Danny Silver and Robert Mercer, Univ of Western Ontario, Canada
The Parallel Transfer of Task Knowledge
H. Todd Wareham, University of Victoria, Canada
The Role of Parameterized Computational Complexity Theory in Cognitive Modeling
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101 K Houser Hall ftp://aramis.cs.ua.edu/pub/tech-reports/
Department of Computer Science phone: (205) 348-6363
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Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 email: rsun at cs.ua.edu
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