The paper describes a novel approach to cognitive architecture exploration in which multiple cognitive architectures are integrated in their entirety. The goal is to increase significantly the application breadth and utility of cognitive architectures generally. The resulting architecture favors a breadth-first rather than depth-first approach to cognitive modeling by focusing on matching the b...

Humanity is but a passing episode in the eternal life of the virus Abstract We deene a two-player virus game played on a nite cyclic digraph G = (V; E). Each vertex is either occupied by a virus, or is unoccupied. A move consists of moving a virus from some u into a selected neighborhood N (u) of u, while devouring every virus in N (u), and replicating in N (u), i.e., placing a virus on all ver...

Much of the discussion about shape representation during the last two decades was fundamentally related to questions about the representation of parts. Inspired by the cognitive processes governing how people represent and think about parts, we give a brief summary of our framework for representing part structures. In particular, we are interested in the role of similarity and prototype e↵ects ...

How can knowledge acquisition, modeling, problem solving, and discovery be facilitated in domains where systems involve complex, heterogeneous, and multi-scale processes? This paper presents the conceptual developments of a research program that aims to support higher-level cognition in such demanding contexts. These process domains present a major challenge for human cognition because the rela...

Wayfinding is a basic activity people do throughout their entire lives as they navigate from one place to another. In order to create different spaces in such a way that they facilitate people’s wayfinding it is necessary to integrate principles of human spatial cognition into the design process. This paper presents a methodology to structure space based on experiental patterns, called image sc...

This paper aims to use a distributed cognition-inspired approach in an analysis of how teams work. The intention is to extract tacit knowledge from observations of a cognitive system which can be derived from the identification of information trajectories and the grouping of agent actions/activities into specific abstract processes. For this purpose, we have developed a tool to support analysis...