[ACT-R-users] Aging problem in ontology modeling

[Hiran Ekanayake]

I think I haven't elaborated the problem properly. In hypothetical levels,
if you compare knowledge modeling in children, they are able to grasp
concepts (more declarative) quickly because their knowledge networks are
small in scale. However, with their development, they start to inference
based on their existing knowledge and selectively attend to things. Again,
since the existing knowledge networks are getting bigger and bigger, these
agents should become inefficient in using their knowledge effectively as a
whole. In this effort, I see some people are more reluctant in absorbing
changes to whatever they believed earlier even they wanted to do so (may be
because of knowledge conflicts at cognitive levels). I see this as one major
problem which creates differences between generations.



Here what I would like to know is whether someone has looked into this
problem before.



Hiran


On 8/27/08, Susan Chipman <susan.chipman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>        I am curious what examples of such problems you think you have
> observed in aged people.  It does not seem to me that ontological relations
> are likely to change over time, as contrasted to things like ideas about
> what things should cost.
>
> Susan Chipman
>
>
>  On 8/26/08, Hiran Ekanayake <hiran.ekanayake at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am not a very active user in this list. May be my question is too
>> general and I would be apologizing if I disturbed your interests.
>>
>>
>>
>> Recently when I was thinking about dynamic ontology modeling, I got the
>> perception that there should be a growing aging problem associated in such
>> models. The reason is that when the network grows over the time, the
>> concepts should be from a spectrum of time frames from past to present. If
>> such a model is used for future decision making, there should be a
>> possibility that the decisions are bit outdated for the current time. I have
>> seen this problem in many aged people.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm very happy if someone can point me references for this.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hiran Ekanayake
>>
>> Department of  Computation and Intelligent Systems
>>
>> University of Colombo School of Computing
>> Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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