Proceedings of the Eleventh Midwest Artificial intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference
Edited by Douglas S. Blank
April 23-25, 2000, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This proceedings is available as an AAAI Technical Report
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Contents
Preface / viii
Douglas S. Blank
MAICS-2000 Organization / vii
Douglas S. Blank
Invited Speakers / ix
Douglas S. Blank
Invited Speakers’ Abstracts and Papers
How Could Knowing about the Brain Fail to Shed Light on Cognitive Processes? / 2
Ken Aizawa
From Assertion to Belief: The Role of Linguistic Data in the Practice of Belief Ascription / 3
Chris Hill
Eliminate the Interface / 4
Ted Krueger
Can We Find a Unified Theory of Consciousness? / 10
Jesse Prinz
Accounting for the Computational Basis of Consciousness / 11
Ron Sun
Robotic and Simulated Agents
VEHanoi: Performance Differences in Virtual versus Real Environments / 13
Tyler Waite
Agents in the Brickworld / 21
Gregory D. Weber
Software Agents and Situatedness: Being Where? / 29
Sanjay Chandrasekharan and Babak Esfandiari
Punctuation Equilibrium and Optimization: An A-Life Model / 33
Ravi Jonnal and Anthony Chemero
Learning and Evolutionary Systems
The Evolution of General Intelligent Behavior / 42
Daniel J. Parks, R. Kent Vail, Erin M. Harpel, and Frank W. Moore
An Implementation of a Parallel Machine Learner / 47
Lee A. Adams, Kevin M. Livingston, and Jennifer Seitzer
A Comparison of the Classic NetTalk Text-to-Speech System to a Modern, Distributed Representation and Simple Recurrent Network / 53
Shyam S. Ramamurthy, Gijun Lee, Anshul Arora, and Douglas S. Blank
A Genetic Algorithm-Based Task Scheduler for Parallel Processor Systems with Non-negligible Interprocessor Delay / 57
Gregory R. Kramer and Frank W. Moore
Knowledge- and Reasoning-Based Systems
Retrieving Knowledge for a Lexical Database from Proper Noun Entries in Collins English Dictionary / 63
Muhammad Asadur Rahman and Martha Evens
A Problem Representation Approach for Decision Support Systems / 68
Sean C. G. Kern and Michael T. Cox
A Hypergraph Representation for Deductive Reasoning Systems / 74
Timothy E. Denehy and Jennifer Seitzer
Intelligent Systems
Planning for the User-interface: Window Characteristics / 79
Boris Kerkez and Michael T. Cox
Development of an Intelligent System for Organic Compound Analysis / 85
Curtis Huttenhower
Automatic Verification of Multiagent Conversations / 93
Timothy Lacey and Scott A. DeLoac
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