[ACT-R-users] Advice

[Marc Halbruegge]

Hi!

> I am having a bit of a hard time at the moment. I have been invited to
> undertake a research project that includes ACT-R and write a toolkit to
> perform cognitive operations on UIs. The platform is Java based which
> means I have to communicate with ACT-R (Lisp) through sockets (maybe).
> However, I have an open mind on the matter and my question to you is:
> what is the best way to interface ACT-R from another platform? I have
> read about some work that uses this approach (TCP/IP datagram’s) but I
> cannot find anything substantial to get me going. Can you help?
I think it's a matter of individual preferences and programming style.

If you want to interface C to Lisp, I can recommend using CFFI on the
Lisp side (http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/) and SWIG to generate
the wrappers (http://www.swig.org/). From C to Java is quite simple
using the Java Native Interface.

Greetings
Marc

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Dipl.-Psych. Marc Halbruegge
Human Factors Institute
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering
Bundeswehr University Munich
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