Miller (1956) summarized evidence that people can remember about seven chunks in short-term memory (STM) tasks. However, that number was meant more as a rough estimate and a rhetorical device than as a real capacity limit. Others have since suggested that there is a more precise capacity limit, but that it is only three to five chunks. The present target article brings together a wide variety o...

An intelligent agent or problem solver is expected to solve a problem correctly and efficiently, communicate the solution and also explain the reasoning behind the solution. Several problem solving paradigms are available, each having its own advantages. Model based planners are very robust but at increased computational cost while case based methods are often more efficient. In this paper we e...

We assessed a hypothesis that working memory capacity should include a constant number of separate mental units, or chunks (cf. Miller, 1956). Because of the practical difficulty of measuring chunks, this hypothesis has not been tested previously, despite wide attention to Miller's article. We used a training procedure to manipulate the strength of associations between pairs of words to be incl...

There is a crucial debate concerning the nature of chess chunks: One current possibility states that chunks are built by encoding particular combinations of pieces-on-squares (POSs), and that chunks are formed mostly by "close" pieces (in a "Euclidean" sense). A complementary hypothesis is that chunks are encoded by abstract, semantic information. This article extends recent experiments and sho...

With many current visualization systems, users must manually throw data away until it fits in memory, before they can visualize it. We propose instead to expose this resource-latency tradeoff to the user directly, by allowing the user to specify resource constraints and have the system adjust automatically. In this poster, we present ForeCache, an exploration system that visualizes aggregated v...

Virtual Machine authors face a difficult choice: to settle for low performance, cheap interpreter, or to write a specialized and costly compiler. One of the methods to bridge the gap between these two distant solutions is to use the existing code-copying technique that reuses chunks of VM’s binary code creating a simple JIT. While simple in principle this technique is not reliable without a com...

In this paper, a method for the word alignment of English-Chinese corpus based on chunks is proposed. The chunks of English sentences are identified firstly. Then the chunk boundaries of Chinese sentences are predicted by the translations of English chunks and heuristic information. The ambiguities of Chinese chunk boundaries are resolved by the coterminous words in English chunks. With the chu...