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Contents

Preface
Oscar Garcia

MAICS-98 Organization / ix
Oscar Garcia

MAICS-98 Sponsors / ix
Oscar Garcia

Cognitive Modeling

Seeking a Computational Brain / 3
Paul Buchheit

Modeling Single-Task Performance Improvement Using EPIC-Soar / 10
Ronald S. Chong

Individual Differences in Working Memory as Strategy Selection: Implications for Computational Models of Scientific Discovery / 17
Eric G. Freedman

Cognitive Modeling for Decision Support in Naval Command and Control / 25
A. Kalus, A.J. Ashford, C.A. Cook, and C. Sheppard

An Exploration of Implicit and Explicit Memory for Textured Shapes in the Haptic Modality / 33
C. Karlyn Limbird

Foundations

Do Walls Compute After All? Challenging Copeland’s Solution to Searle’s Theorem Against Strong AI / 43
Matthias Scheutz

Recovery and Common Sense Reasoning: Principles of Nonmonotonic Theory Recovery / 50
Cees Witteveen

If Interdependent Preferences May Depend on Cognition / 58
Daniel John Zizzo

Learning

Learned Multitarget Tracking by Feature Recognition / 68
Erik P. Blasch and Scott Watamaniuk

An Experimental Investigation of Gladun’s Theory of Automatic Classification / 75
F. M. Brown, G. Jacobs, J. S. Snider, A. G. Jackson, and S. R. LeClair

A Faster Algorithm for Learning Decision Trees with Module Nodes / 83
Zhixiang Chen and Xiannong Meng

A Neural Network-Based Cryptographic System / 91
Misti Clark and Douglas Blank

Improving Means and Variances of Best-of-Run Programs in Genetic Programming / 95
Frank W. Moore

A Hierarchical ART Network Model for General Pattern Recognition / 102
J. Oliver Ross

Methodology

Finding Phrases Rather Than Discovering Collocations: Searching Corpora for Dictionary Phrases / 109
Debra S. Baddorf and Martha W. Evens

Synthesizing Dynamic Curriculums from Concept Maps through Matroids and Concept Vectors / 117
Mark L. Dyson, Sheila B. Banks, Eugene Santos Jr., and F. Alex Kilpatrick

Relationship between Tutorial Goals and Sentence Structure in a Corpus of Tutoring Transcripts / 124
Jung Hee Kim, Reva Freedman, and Martha Evens

Interface Design Issues in a Solid Model Derivation System / 132
William A. Lange Jr. and Oscar Garcia

Hierarchical Categorization / 141
Andreas Wichert

Index / 149