Creativity creating new solutions to problems is an integral part of the problem-solving process. This paper presents a cognitive model of creativity in which a case-based problem-solver is augmented with (1) a creative drive and (2) a set of creativity heuristics. New solutions are discovered by solving a slightly different problem and adapting that solution to the original problem. By repeati...

This paper approaches implementation evaluation as an integral part of the public administration organizational action. Drawing on contributions from organization theory, we assign a dual role to evaluation: valuable cognitive resource and accountability tool for the policymakers. This exploratory case study, supported by a review of secondary data sources, seeks to enrich the literature on imp...

Landmarks are crucial for human wayfinding. Their integration in wayfinding assistance systems is essential for generating cognitively ergonomic route directions. I present an approach to automatically determining references to different types of landmarks. This approach exploits the circular order of a decision point’s branches. It allows uniformly handling point landmarks as well as linear an...

Emotions are an integral part of human decision making. It follows that emotions should take part in the decision process towards the design of more realistic artificial agents. Three psychological models for emotions are examined and a corresponding algorithm is developed for each depicting its process. A generalized multi-agent model is designed to demonstrate the implementation of each of th...

The use of lesion data to make inferences about the neural basis of cognitive functions is a useful and widespread practise in cognitive neuropsychology (Damasio & Damasio, 1989 to Bates et al., 2003). We propose a novel approach for the determination of lesion/behaviour relationships, which does not require explicit lesion quantification but instead utilises signal intensity level on a voxel b...

The cognitive radio wireless sensor networks have become an integral part of communicating spectrum information to the fusion centre, in a cooperative spectrum sensing environment. A group of battery operated sensors or nodes, sensing information about spectrum availability in the radio links, needs an energy efficient strategy to pass on the binary information. A proper routing method through ...

Cognitive feedback in group decision making is information that provides decision makers with a better understanding of their own decision processes and that of the other group members. It appears to be an effective aid in group decision making. Although it has been suggested as a potential feature of group decision support systems (GDSS), tittle research has examined its use and impact. This a...

The idea that human cognition essentially involves symbolic reasoning and the manipulation of representations which somehow stand for entities in the real world is central to “cognitivist” approaches to AI and cognitive science, but has been repeatedly challenged within these disciplines; while the very idea of representation has been problematised by philosophers such as Dreyfus, Davidson, McD...