Sterman (1989) proposed that decision makers misperceive the feedback provided by dynamically complex environments, and questioned whether people can learn to make effective decisions in such environments. We provide empirical evidence of learning in a well-known dynamic environment called the beer game. We then describe a preliminary version of an instance-based, dynamic decision making model ...

This paper describes a computational emotion-theoretic model (i.e., Clarion-E) used to capture the dynamics of appraisal and coping by victims of school bullying. It provides an overview of recent research concerning bullying appraisals and coping strategies by students who reported themselves as being the victims of school bullying. It also demonstrates how such processes may be expressed comp...

Conditions on the existence of self-dual θ-codes defined over a finite field IFq are studied for θ automorphism of IFq. When q ≡ 1 (mod 4) it is proven that there always exists a self-dual θ-code in any dimension and that self-dual θ-codes of a given dimension are either all θ-cyclic or all θ-negacyclic. When q ≡ 3 (mod 4), there does not exist a selfdual θ-cyclic code and a necessary and suffi...

Previous studies on review information adoption, drawing upon dual process theory, focus on the important roles of two key review-related factors namely argument strength and source credibility, but pay less attention to the social relationships between review sources and recipients. To fill this research gap, based on the construal level theory, we articulate that tie strength moderates the im...

There is a body of work that suggests that those elements of the cognitive architecture responsible for processing, on the one hand, visual information (essentially visual properties of objects), and, on the other hand, spatial information (spatial relationships between objects), may compete with each other for resources. In this paper, we explore whether and to what degree the processing of vi...

This paper describes Metacat, an extension of the Copycat analogy-making program. Metacat is able to monitor its own processing, allowing it to recognize, remember, and recall patterns that occur in its “train of thought” as it makes analogies. This gives the program a high degree of flexibility and self-control. The architecture of the program is described, along with a sample run illustrating...

Psychologism in logic is the doctrine that the semantic content of logical terms is in some way a feature of human psychology. We consider the historically influential version of the doctrine, Psychological Individualism, and the many counter-arguments to it. We then propose and assess various modifications to the doctrine that might allow it to avoid the classical objections. We call these Psy...

Seven experiments were conducted to examine the role of attention in automatization. Ss searched 2-word displays for members of a target category in divided-attention, focused-attention, and dual-task conditions. The main issue was whether attention conditions would affect what Ss learned about co-occurrences of the words in the displays. The attention hypothesis, derived from the instance theo...

This paper discusses issues related to model predictive control for dual rate systems in which the input is updated faster than the output. When fast-rate models are not available, a simple and effective approach is proposed for receding horizon control which uses just a single prediction equation to generate fast control moves.