Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our tenth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2014-2015)
Time: Friday October 24, 14h-16h Place: *room D.1.07* ------------------------------ Autobiographical reasoning, the Xapagy cognitive architecture and implications for the Global Brain Lotzi Bölöni <http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/%7Elboloni/> (University of Central Florida) Abstract: We describe an approach to reasoning where an agent uses its autobiography recorded in the form of an unprocessed narrative to take decisions in the real world. The agent, when faced with an ongoing situation, aligns narratives from its autobiography with the current events. Reasoning is performed by projecting these narratives into the future (to create predictions and plans) or extend locally (to infer hidden actions or relations). We will briefly describe and demonstrate how these principles are implemented in the Xapagy cognitive architecture. Then, in a fictional scenario where the described autobiographical reasoning approach is the dominant model, we discuss its implications for the Global Brain and its relationship with individual human and machine intelligences. Bio: Lotzi Bölöni is an associate professor at the Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of University of Central Florida. He received a PhD degree from the Computer Sciences Department of Purdue University in May 2000, an MSc degree from the Computer Sciences department of Purdue University in 1999 and BSc. Computer Engineering with Honors from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 1993. He received a fellowship from the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for the 1994-95 academic year. He had been a visiting researcher at Imperial College London in Fall 2011, and at University of Rome La Sapientia in Spring 2012. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of the ACM, AAAI and the Upsilon Pi Epsilon honorary society. His research interests include cognitive science, autonomous agents, grid computing and wireless networking. His current research interests include: - Modeling social and cultural environments - Human-robot interfaces - Agent based models for sensor network behavior - Team activity recognition - The Xapagy cognitive architecture - a system for narrative reasoning ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *Oct. 31 * Cadell Last *Information-Energy Metasystem Model* *Nov. 7 * Harry Halpin and Smári McCarthy *Nov. 14 * Lotte van Lith *Nov. 21 * Ivo Velitchkov *Requisite Inefficiency* *Nov. 28* Jerome C. Glenn *The Global Futures Intelligence System* *Dec. 5 * Petter Braathen *Linking Complexity Science and Strategic Management* *Dec. 12 * Ben Collins *The Internet of Places/ The Future of Brands* *Dec. 19 * Jeanne Dietsch *Interactions of emotion, rationality, faith and institutions on the outcomes of trust* See also the ECCO/GBI calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers <http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
