Since electronic and open environments became a reality, computational trust and reputation models have attracted increasing interest in the field of multiagent systems (MAS). Some of them are based on cognitive theories of reputation that require cognitive agents to display all their potential. One of them is Repage, a computational system based on a cognitive theory of reputation that focuses...

Innateness is one of the central concepts of cognitive science; but it is also a source of considerable confusion. In this article, I survey recent attempts to understand the notion of innateness as it figures in cognitive science and indicate which is likely to prove most fruitful. One approach draws directly on our "commonsense" views about innate traits. Another aims to characterize innatene...

This paper presents a proposal to characterize Sapient Agents in terms of cognitive concepts and abilities. In particular, a sapient agent is considered as a cognitive agent the learns its cognitive state and capabilities through experience. This characterization is based on formal concepts such as beliefs, goals, plans and reasoning rules, and formal techniques such as relational RL. We identi...

As a matter of fact, humans continuously delegate and distribute cognitive functions to the environment to lessen their limits. They build models, representations, and other various mediating structures, that are considered to aid thought. In doing these, humans are engaged in a process of cognitive niche construction. In this sense, I argue that a cognitive niche emerges from a network of cont...

Many ideas in the biological sciences seem especially difficult to understand, learn, and teach successfully. Our goal in this feature is to explore how these difficulties may stem not from the complexity or opacity of the concepts themselves, but from the fact that they may clash with informal, intuitive, and deeply held ways of understanding the world that have been studied for decades by psy...

Cognitive support for ship Damage Control-Design and evaluation of a prototype user interface", INEC Proceedings, 2002. Abstract Recently, four cognitive support concepts were developed, that should help to handle high-demand situations. These concepts are based on a cognitive task load model and can be realised with a specific method for cognitive task load analysis. The model and method descr...

We present original evidence that abstract and concrete concepts are organized and represented differently, based on statistical analyses of thousands of concepts in publicly available datasets. First, we show that abstract and concrete concepts have differing patterns of association with other concepts. Second, we test recent hypotheses that abstract concepts are organized according to associa...

A cognitive network is a network which can learn to improve its performance while operating under its unknown and dynamic environment. Cognitive engine as part of a cognitive network tries to adaptively find an appropriate configuration for the network. Up until now no peer-to-peer network management algorithm has been designated utilizing cognitive networking concepts. In this paper, we adopt ...

This paper presents a proposal to characterize Sapient Agents in terms of cognitive concepts and abilities. In particular, a sapient agent is considered as a cognitive agent the learns its cognitive state and capabilities through experience. This characterization is based on formal concepts such as beliefs, goals, plans and reasoning rules, and formal techniques such as relational RL. We identi...

.................................................................................................................. 3 1. The goals of this report on concepts of competence ..................................... 4 2. Definitions of the concepts “competence” and “competencies” .................. 4 (a) General cognitive competencies ......................................................................