Soar A Cognitive Architecture In Perspective

Author : J.A. Michon,Aladin Akyrürek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
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Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789401124263

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Soar: A Cognitive Architecture in Perspective by J.A. Michon,Aladin Akyrürek Pdf

Soar: A Cognitive Architecture in Perspective represents a European perspective on Soar with the exception of the special contribution from Allen Newell arguing for Unified Theories of Cognition. The various papers derive from the work of the Soar Research Group that has been active at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, since 1987. The work reported here has been inspired in particular by two topics that precipitated the group's interest in Soar in the first place -- road user behavior and the temporal organization of behavior, more specifically planning. At the same time, the various contributions go well beyond the simple use of Soar as a convenient medium for modeling human cognitive activity. In every paper one or more fundamental issues are raised that touch upon the very nature and consistency of Soar as an intelligent architecture. As a result the reader will learn about the operator implementation problem, chunking, multitasking, the need to constrain the depth of the goal stack, and induction, etc. Soar is still at a relatively early stage of development. It does, nevertheless, constitute an important breakthrough in the area of computer architectures for general intelligence. Soar shows one important direction that future efforts to build intelligent systems should take if they aim for a comprehensive, and psychologically meaningful, theory of cognition. This is argued in a powerful way by Newell in his contribution to this volume. For this reason, the Soar system will probably play an important integrative role within cognitive science in bringing together important subdomains of psychology, computer science, linguistics, and the neurosciences. Although Soar is not the only `architecture for intelligence', it is one of the most advanced and theoretically best motivated architectures presently available. Soar: A Cognitive Architecture in Perspective is of special interest to researchers in the domains of cognitive science, computer science and artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and the philosophy of mind.

Author : J. A. Michon,Aladin Akyrurek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401124272

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Soar by J. A. Michon,Aladin Akyrurek Pdf

Author : John E. Laird
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262538534

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The Soar Cognitive Architecture by John E. Laird Pdf

The definitive presentation of Soar, one AI's most enduring architectures, offering comprehensive descriptions of fundamental aspects and new components. In development for thirty years, Soar is a general cognitive architecture that integrates knowledge-intensive reasoning, reactive execution, hierarchical reasoning, planning, and learning from experience, with the goal of creating a general computational system that has the same cognitive abilities as humans. In contrast, most AI systems are designed to solve only one type of problem, such as playing chess, searching the Internet, or scheduling aircraft departures. Soar is both a software system for agent development and a theory of what computational structures are necessary to support human-level agents. Over the years, both software system and theory have evolved. This book offers the definitive presentation of Soar from theoretical and practical perspectives, providing comprehensive descriptions of fundamental aspects and new components. The current version of Soar features major extensions, adding reinforcement learning, semantic memory, episodic memory, mental imagery, and an appraisal-based model of emotion. This book describes details of Soar's component memories and processes and offers demonstrations of individual components, components working in combination, and real-world applications. Beyond these functional considerations, the book also proposes requirements for general cognitive architectures and explicitly evaluates how well Soar meets those requirements.

Author : John E. Laird
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262300353

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The Soar Cognitive Architecture by John E. Laird Pdf

The definitive presentation of Soar, one AI's most enduring architectures, offering comprehensive descriptions of fundamental aspects and new components. In development for thirty years, Soar is a general cognitive architecture that integrates knowledge-intensive reasoning, reactive execution, hierarchical reasoning, planning, and learning from experience, with the goal of creating a general computational system that has the same cognitive abilities as humans. In contrast, most AI systems are designed to solve only one type of problem, such as playing chess, searching the Internet, or scheduling aircraft departures. Soar is both a software system for agent development and a theory of what computational structures are necessary to support human-level agents. Over the years, both software system and theory have evolved. This book offers the definitive presentation of Soar from theoretical and practical perspectives, providing comprehensive descriptions of fundamental aspects and new components. The current version of Soar features major extensions, adding reinforcement learning, semantic memory, episodic memory, mental imagery, and an appraisal-based model of emotion. This book describes details of Soar's component memories and processes and offers demonstrations of individual components, components working in combination, and real-world applications. Beyond these functional considerations, the book also proposes requirements for general cognitive architectures and explicitly evaluates how well Soar meets those requirements.

Author : Chris Eliasmith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199794690

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How to Build a Brain by Chris Eliasmith Pdf

How to Build a Brain provides a detailed exploration of a new cognitive architecture - the Semantic Pointer Architecture - that takes biological detail seriously, while addressing cognitive phenomena. Topics ranging from semantics and syntax, to neural coding and spike-timing-dependent plasticity are integrated to develop the world's largest functional brain model.

Author : David Vernon
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262028387

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Artificial Cognitive Systems by David Vernon Pdf

A concise introduction to a complex field, bringing together recent work in cognitive science and cognitive robotics to offer a solid grounding on key issues. This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to the emerging field of artificial cognitive systems. Cognition, both natural and artificial, is about anticipating the need for action and developing the capacity to predict the outcome of those actions. Drawing on artificial intelligence, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, the field of artificial cognitive systems has as its ultimate goal the creation of computer-based systems that can interact with humans and serve society in a variety of ways. This primer brings together recent work in cognitive science and cognitive robotics to offer readers a solid grounding on key issues. The book first develops a working definition of cognitive systems—broad enough to encompass multiple views of the subject and deep enough to help in the formulation of theories and models. It surveys the cognitivist, emergent, and hybrid paradigms of cognitive science and discusses cognitive architectures derived from them. It then turns to the key issues, with chapters devoted to autonomy, embodiment, learning and development, memory and prospection, knowledge and representation, and social cognition. Ideas are introduced in an intuitive, natural order, with an emphasis on the relationships among ideas and building to an overview of the field. The main text is straightforward and succinct; sidenotes drill deeper on specific topics and provide contextual links to further reading.

Author : Paul S. Rosenbloom,John Laird,Allen Newell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : UOM:39015033146195

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The Soar Papers by Paul S. Rosenbloom,John Laird,Allen Newell Pdf

Author : Science Society Cognitive, Con,POLSON
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0805814876

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Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society by Science Society Cognitive, Con,POLSON Pdf

This volume features the complete text of all regular papers, posters, and summaries of symposia presented at the 15th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Author : M.H. Bickhard,L. Terveen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780444825209

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Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science by M.H. Bickhard,L. Terveen Pdf

The book focuses on a conceptual flaw in contemporary artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Many people have discovered diverse manifestations and facets of this flaw, but the central conceptual impasse is at best only partially perceived. Its consequences, nevertheless, visit themselves as distortions and failures of multiple research projects - and make impossible the ultimate aspirations of the fields. The impasse concerns a presupposition concerning the nature of representation - that all representation has the nature of encodings: encodingism. Encodings certainly exist, but encodingism is at root logically incoherent; any programmatic research predicted on it is doomed too distortion and ultimate failure. The impasse and its consequences - and steps away from that impasse - are explored in a large number of projects and approaches. These include SOAR, CYC, PDP, situated cognition, subsumption architecture robotics, and the frame problems - a general survey of the current research in AI and Cognitive Science emerges. Interactivism, an alternative model of representation, is proposed and examined.

Author : Akira Miyake,Priti Shah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521587212

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Models of Working Memory by Akira Miyake,Priti Shah Pdf

This volume offers a much-needed forum for comparing and contrasting existing models of working memory.

Author : David Vernon,Claes von Hofsten,Luciano Fadiga
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642169045

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A Roadmap for Cognitive Development in Humanoid Robots by David Vernon,Claes von Hofsten,Luciano Fadiga Pdf

This book addresses the central role played by development in cognition. The focus is on applying our knowledge of development in natural cognitive systems, specifically human infants, to the problem of creating artificial cognitive systems in the guise of humanoid robots. The approach is founded on the three-fold premise that (a) cognition is the process by which an autonomous self-governing agent acts effectively in the world in which it is embedded, (b) the dual purpose of cognition is to increase the agent's repertoire of effective actions and its power to anticipate the need for future actions and their outcomes, and (c) development plays an essential role in the realization of these cognitive capabilities. Our goal in this book is to identify the key design principles for cognitive development. We do this by bringing together insights from four areas: enactive cognitive science, developmental psychology, neurophysiology, and computational modelling. This results in roadmap comprising a set of forty-three guidelines for the design of a cognitive architecture and its deployment in a humanoid robot. The book includes a case study based on the iCub, an open-systems humanoid robot which has been designed specifically as a common platform for research on embodied cognitive systems .

Author : Sandra L. Schneider,James Shanteau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 052152718X

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Emerging Perspectives on Judgment and Decision Research by Sandra L. Schneider,James Shanteau Pdf

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Author : John R. Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199741267

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How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe? by John R. Anderson Pdf

"The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe. We now know that the world is governed by physics. We now understand the way biology nestles comfortably within that. The issue is how will the mind do that as well."--Allen Newell, December 4, 1991, Carnegie Mellon University The argument John Anderson gives in this book was inspired by the passage above, from the last lecture by one of the pioneers of cognitive science. Newell describes what, for him, is the pivotal question of scientific inquiry, and Anderson gives an answer that is emerging from the study of brain and behavior. Humans share the same basic cognitive architecture with all primates, but they have evolved abilities to exercise abstract control over cognition and process more complex relational patterns. The human cognitive architecture consists of a set of largely independent modules associated with different brain regions. In this book, Anderson discusses in detail how these various modules can combine to produce behaviors as varied as driving a car and solving an algebraic equation, but focuses principally on two of the modules: the declarative and procedural. The declarative module involves a memory system that, moment by moment, attempts to give each person the most appropriate possible window into his or her past. The procedural module involves a central system that strives to develop a set of productions that will enable the most adaptive response from any state of the modules. Newell argued that the answer to his question must take the form of a cognitive architecture, and Anderson organizes his answer around the ACT-R architecture, but broadens it by bringing in research from all areas of cognitive science, including how recent work in brain imaging maps onto the cognitive architecture.

Author : Ron Sun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780521674102

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The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology by Ron Sun Pdf

A cutting-edge reference source for the interdisciplinary field of computational cognitive modeling.

Author : David M. Steier,Tom M. Mitchell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317781240

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Mind Matters by David M. Steier,Tom M. Mitchell Pdf

Based on a symposium honoring the extensive work of Allen Newell -- one of the founders of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, and the systematic study of computational architectures -- this volume demonstrates how unifying themes may be found in the diversity that characterizes current research on computers and cognition. The subject matter includes: * an overview of cognitive and computer science by leading researchers in the field; * a comprehensive description of Allen Newell's "Soar" -- a computational architecture he developed as a unified theory of cognition; * commentary on how the Soar theory of cognition relates to important issues in cognitive and computer science; * rigorous treatments of controversial issues in cognition -- methodology of cognitive science, hybrid approaches to machine learning, word-sense disambiguation in understanding material language, and the role of capability processing constraints in architectural theory; * comprehensive and systematic methods for studying architectural evolution in both hardware and software; * a thorough discussion of the use of analytic models in human computer interaction; * extensive reviews of important experiments in the study of scientific discovery and deduction; and * an updated analysis of the role of symbols in information processing by Herbert Simon. Incorporating the research of top scientists inspired by Newell's work, this volume will be of strong interest to a large variety of scientific communities including psychologists, computational linguists, computer scientists and engineers, and interface designers. It will also be valuable to those who study the scientific process itself, as it chronicles the impact of Newell's approach to research, simultaneously delving into each scientific discipline and producing results that transcend the boundaries of those disciplines.