Inspired by the reflective and deliberative control mechanisms used in cognitive architectures such as SOAR Sigma, we propose an alternative decision mechanism driven architectural appraisals allowing robots to overcome impasses. The presented work builds on improves our previous a generally applicable with roots Standard Model of Mind Generalized Cognitive Hour-glass Model. proposed provides a...

The design of key nonlinear systems often requires the use expensive blackbox simulations presenting inherent discontinuities whose positions in variable space cannot be analytically predicted. Without further precautions, solution related optimization problems leads to configurations which may close output functions. These betray unsafe regions space, such as resonance regions. To account for ...

Escaping Catch-22 About 27% of Americans say they definitely or probably won’t get a Covid vaccine, even if it’s free and deemed safe by scientists. The behavioral obstacles to widespread vaccinati...