Computational Cognitive Modeling: Source of the Power

[Charles X. Ling]

                     AAAI-96 Workshop  

            Computational Cognitive Modeling 
                   Source of the Power   

               One-day Workshop. August 5, 1996 
   (During UAI, KDD, AAAI, and IAAI. Portland, Oregon)

Visit   http://www.cs.hku.hk/~ling   for updated info	

Program Committee:
  Charles Ling (co-chair), University of Hong Kong, ling at cs.hku.hk 
  Ron Sun (co-chair), University of Alabama, rsun at cs.ua.edu 
  Pat Langley, Stanford University
  Mike Pazzani, UC Irvine
  Tom Shultz, McGill University
  Paul Thagard, Univ. of Waterloo
  Kurt VanLehn, Univ. of Pittsburgh

Invited speakers: Gary Cottrell, Jeff Elman, Denis Mareschal, Tom Shultz, 
  Aaron Sloman, and Paul Thagard.

Note: To attend the Workshop, you MUST register. To register, send e-mails
      to Charles Ling or Ron Sun. If you register the AAAI main conference,
      registration fee is free (but you still need to register);  otherwise,
      there is a fee of $150 per Workshop.
	
	
             The Workshop Program and Schedule

 9:00 am: Welcome and Introduction. Charles Ling and Ron Sun (Co-Chairs)

 9:10 am: Aaron Sloman, The University of Birmingham, UK 
      What sort of architecture is required for a human-like agent? 
      (invited talk)
 9:40 am: Susan L. Epstein and Jack Gelfand, City University of New York, USA
      The creation of new problem solving agents from experience with visual
      features
10:00 am: Denis Mareschal, Exeter University, UK 
      Models of Object Permanence: How and Why they Work (invited talk)

10:30 am: coffee break

11:00 am: Pat Langley, Stanford University, USA
      An abstract computational model of learning selective sensing skills
11:20 am: Craig S. Miller, Dickinson College, USA
      The source of graded performance in a symbolic rule-based model
11:40 am: Christian D. Schunn and Lynne M. Reder, Carnegie Mellon University
      Modeling changes in strategy selections over time

12:00 pm: lunch break

 1:30 pm: poster session

 2:30 pm: Tom Shultz, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
      Generative Connectionist Models of Cognitive Development: Why They Work
      (invited talk)
 3:00 pm: Garrison W. Cottrell, University of California, San Diego, USA
      Selective attention in the acquisition of the past tense (invited talk)

 3:30 pm coffee break

 4:00 pm: Jeff Elman, University of California, San Diego, USA
      States and stacks: Doing computation with a recurrent neural network 
      (invited talk)
 4:30 pm: Paul Thagard, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
      Evaluating Computational Models of Cognition: Notes from the Analogy Wars
      (invited talk)
 5:00 pm: Tony Veale, Barry Smyth, Diarmuid O'Donoghue, Mark Keane
      Representational myopia in cognitive mapping 

 5:20 pm: Panel and discussions
      Panelists: Charles Ling, Ron Sun, Pat Langley, Mike Pazzani.
 6:30 pm: end