An Architectural Overlay: Modifying an Architecture to Help Cognitive Models Understand and Explain Themselves

Abstract

Two challenges confront efforts to develop effective intelligent systems to work in complex domains: making them easier, faster and less expensive to develop, and making them easier to comprehend, use, and trust (Haynes, Councill, & Ritter, 2004). This applies to cognitive models as well (Ritter, 2004). We have created a high-level behavior representation language and integrated development environment (IDE) called Herbal (Cohen, Ritter, & Haynes, 2005) that answers these challenges. Herbal provides explanations, it works, has been used by 60 people as the basis of a course on modeling and as a tutorial at the BRIMS conference, and the data so far suggest a 3 to 7 x performance increase compared to developing Soar code directly. The next steps are to evaluate and extend Herbal, and to apply Herbal to a real-world problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 24, 2006
Accession Number
ADA443755

Entities

People

  • Frank Ritter
  • Steven R. Haynes

Organizations

  • Pennsylvania State University

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Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • High Level Languages
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Human-Computer Interfaces
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Intelligent Agents
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Language
  • Military Research
  • Psychology
  • Software Development

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  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Information Retrieval
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.