UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
             COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                            presents

   "A Matter of Mind: An overview of recent developments
          in the CHREST cognitive architecture"

                    Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Kelly
          (Institute of Psychology, Health and Society,
                   University of Liverpool)

          * * *    9 December 2014 (* Tuesday *)   * * *
                      *  10 am - 11 am *

                  Hatfield, College Lane Campus
                      Seminar Room ** F309 **

                  Everyone is Welcome to Attend

                  Refreshments will be available

Abstract:

In this talk I will discuss recent developments and experimental results
that are of interest to the AI community after developing CHREST so
that it may be implemented in a stochastic, multi-agent environment.
CHREST specifically attempts to model how sensory input drives learning
and how learning directs sensory output/input and is tightly coupled
to Herbert Simon's theory of "bounded rationality".  The simulations
discussed concern the effects exerted upon agent performance in the
stochastic, multi-agent model mentioned when differing degrees of
environmental complexity are implemented and the rationality of agents
are bound in distinct ways and to different degrees.  This talk will be of
interest to those who are looking to use/develop agent architectures that
are capable of learning "online" and autonomously using a human-centric
theory of cognition firmly grounded in psychology and to those interested
in how human-like rationality can benefit/impinge agent performance
given different environmental complexity conditions.


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