AAAI 2008 Fall Symposium Series: November 7-9, Arlington, Virginia, USA

Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures

Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium

Alexei V. Samsonovich, Chair

Technical Report FS-08-04, Menlo Park, California: AAAI Press, 2008

Table of Contents

· Organizing Committee / iii

· Preface: Toward a Growing Computational Replica of the Human Mind / 1-3

Alexei V. Samsonovich and Shane T. Mueller

· A Novel Classification Method Using Self-Regulatory Feedback / 4 [Full_text_available]

Tsvi Achler and Eyal Amir

· Reverse Engineering the Brain / 5-14

James S. Albus (keynote)

· Circuit Sharing and the Implementation of Intelligent Systems / 15

Michael L. Anderson (keynote)

· Detecting, Tracking, and Modeling Self-Regulatory Processes during Complex Learning with Hypermedia / 16-26

Roger Azevedo and Amy M. Witherspoon (keynote)

· A Brain Inspired Architecture for an Outdoor Robot Guide / 27-34

Rosamaria Barone, Irene Macaluso, Lorenzo Riano, and Antonio Chella (keynote)

· Bio-Inspired Planning and Reaching in Complex Environments / 35

Rajan Bhattacharyya, Narayan Srinivasa, and Stephen Grossberg

· An Exploratory Study Towards “Machines that Learn to Read” / 36-41

Elizabeth Boschee, Vasin Punyakanok, and Ralph Weischedel

· Episodic Memory for Human-like Agents and Human-like Agents for Episodic Memory / 42-47 [Full_text_available]

Cyril Brom and Jiří Lukavský

· Learning through Observation and Imitation: An Overview of the ConSCIS Architecture / 48-53

Antonio Chella, Haris Dindo, and Salvatore Gaglio

· Modeling Mental Contexts and Their Interactions / 54-59 [Full_text_available]

Wei Chen and Scott E. Fahlman

· The Internal World Models Needed to Perform Situation Estimation / 60

James L. Eilbert

· Building a Constraint Solver that Learns / 61

Susan L. Epstein (keynote)

· Synthetic Cognitive Agent Situational Awareness Components / 62

Sanford T. Freedman and Julie A. Adams

· Quantifying Memory Retrieval: From Neural Substrates to the Subjective Content / 63

Robert S. Gardner, Adam T. Vogel, Matteo Mainetti, and Giorgio A. Ascoli

· A Cognitively-Based Constructivist Approach to Memory and Reasoning / 64

John S. Gero

· XIA-MAN: An Extensible, Integrative Architecture for Intelligent Humanoid Robotics / 65-74 [Full_text_available]

Ben Goertzel and Hugo de Garis

· Cognitive Ontologies: Mapping Structure and Function of the Brain from a Systemic View / 75-76

Jaime Gómez, Ricardo Sanz, and Carlos Hernández

· Evolving Complete Cognitive Architectures: The Role of Neural Competition and Diffusive Emotional Control for Learning and Emergent Cognitive Capabilities / 77

Claudius Gros and Gregor Kaczor

· Towards Self-Organizing Autonomous Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures / 78-79

Stephen Grossberg (keynote)

· Servo Stacks: An Architecture for Cognitive and Developmental Robotics / 80

J. Storrs Hall

· Bayesian Memory: A Possible Hardware Building Block for Intelligent Systems / 81

Dan Hammerstrom and Mazad Zaveri

· Modeling the Mechanisms of Emotion Effects on Cognition / 82-86

Eva Hudlicka

· A Neuropsychological Framework for Advancing Artificial Intelligence / 87 [Full_text_available]

Christian R. Huyck and Hina Ghalib

· A Categorization of Contextual Constraints / 88 [Full_text_available]

Michael Kandefer and Stuart C. Shapiro

· Perceptive Machines: From Selective Attention and Recognition to Visual Cognition / 94-95

Deepak Khosla and David J. Huber (keynote)

· Applications of BICA to Intelligence Analysis / 96-97

Paul Kogut, Norris Heintzelman, and Greg Stachnick

· The SAL Integrated Cognitive Architecture / 98-104

Christian Lebiere, Randall O'Reilly, David J. Jilk, Niels Taatgen, and John R. Anderson

· Hippocampal Formation Breaks Combinatorial Explosion for Reinforcement Learning: A Conjecture / 105-110

András Lőrincz

· Systems Learning for Complex Pattern Problems / 111-112

Omid Madani

· The Biological Bases of Syntax-Semantics Interface in Natural Languages: Cognitive Modeling and Empirical Evidence / 113-116

Evguenia Malaia and Ronnie B. Wilbur

· Adapting the Turing Test for Embodied Neurocognitive Evaluation of Biologically-Inspired Cognitive Agents / 117-126

Shane T. Mueller and Brandon S. Minnery (keynote)

· A Simulated Physiological/Cognitive “Double Agent” / 127-134

Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, and Stephen Beale

· Function Follows Form: Biologically Guided Functional Decomposition of Memory Systems / 135-139

David C. Noelle (keynote)

· Toward an Adaptive Intelligent Agent / 140

Daniel Oblinger (keynote)

· To BICA and Beyond: RAH-RAH-RAH! -- or-- How Biology and Anomalies Together Contribute to Flexible Cognition / 141-145

Don Perlis (keynote)

· Awareness Mechanisms for an Intelligent Tutoring System / 146-151

Roberto Pirrone, Vincenzo Cannella, and Giuseppe Russo

· CASTLE: A Framework for Integrating Cognitive Models into Virtual Environments / 152

Art Pope and Pat Langley

· Improved Animal-Like Maintenance of Homeostatic Goals via Flexible Latching / 153-160

Philipp Rohlfshagen and Joanna J. Bryson

· A Unified Architecture for Cognition and Motor Control Based on Neuroanatomy, Psychophysical Experiments, and Cognitive Behaviors / 161

Brandon Rohrer

· Cognitive Constructor: A Biologically-Inspired Self-Regulated Learning Partner / 162-167

Alexei V. Samsonovich, Anastasia Kitsantas and Nada Dabbagh

· A Principled Approach for Systematic Mind Engineering / 168

Ricardo Sanz, Jaime Gómez, Carlos Hernández, and Adolfo Hernando

· Reverse Engineering the Brain With a Circuit Diagram Based on a Segmented Connectome and System Dynamics / 169-173 [Full_text_available]

Walter Schneider, Michael Cole, and Sudhir Pathak (keynote)

· Grounded Language Acquisition Enables Intuitive Reasoning / 174-179

Josefina Sierra and Josefina Santibáñez

· Figurative Language: “Meaning” is Often More Than Just a Sum of the Parts / 180-185

Les Sikos, Susan Windisch Brown, Albert E. Kim, Laura A. Michaelis, and Martha Palmer

· Learning Invariant Sensory-Motor Transforms for Fault-Tolerant Control of Redundant Robots / 186

Narayan Srinivasa and Stephen Grossberg

· Cognitive Models of Human Expertise and Their Scientific and Practical Value / 187

James J. Staszewski

· The Ouroboros Model / 188

Knud Thomsen

· Action and Adaptation: Lessons from Neurobiology and Challenges for Robot Cognitive Architectures / 189-194

Rodrigo Ventura

· Discovering the Foundations of a Universal System of Ethics as a Road to Safe Artificial Intelligence / 195-200

Mark R. Waser

· Multiple Workspaces as an Architecture for Cognition / 201-206

Jeremy L. Wyatt and Nick Hawes

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