Title : Computational cognitive models of action formation with Awareness

Presenter Dilhan Thilakarathne
Abstract Computational cognitive modeling that aims to bridge the human behavior and its neural underpinning is becoming an essential tool in many disciplines where they need a rigorous matching against human data. Our research is focusing on developing a computational cognitive models inspired by cognitive, physiological, and affective neuroscience evidences; mainly embedding the concept of ‘Awareness’ with the cognitive processes that shows the interplay between conscious and unconscious action formation. Our research specially focuses attention on cognitive states prior to, and after the action was performed: prior and retrospective; that enables us to facilitate a rational mapping between cognitive and behavioral evidences that depend on the context and conditions. The current version of the model has provided some simulation evidences for: action vetoing, poor predictions of schizophrenic patients, action selection, and intentional inhibition. This type of a model will be useful in applications/domains like: clinical psychology, decision making, behavioral management, emotional control, agent based modeling in economics, and in much more. In this presentation I would like to share with you some information about a one model that we compiled and simulated.

Title : From the Web to Humans: Towards "Real" Reasoning

Presenter Jacopo Urbani
Abstract Reasoning is a cornerstone of human intelligence and AI has been trying for 60 years to reimplementing it with machines. In the Semantic Web, reasoning is a well-defined logical process, and even though we are not yet able to perform it over the entire Web, current research has shown how it can be successfully applied over very large amounts of data. We are now at the point where we can study reasoning and the Semantic Web in more detail, looking for general principles that we can reuse to achieve our original goal of (re)implementing human intelligence. In this talk, I will first talk about three possible laws that we can extract from reasoning on the current Semantic Web. Then, I will speculate on what level the Semantic Web reflects human knowledge, and whether such laws can also be applied to humans. Finally, I will discuss reasoning in more general terms, and point out some of the still missing things that we need to have truly reasonable machines.