Frank Ritter
Location: (University Park, PA)
Personal Research Web Page: http://acs.ist.psu.edu/
Keywords: Parallel Genetic Algorithms, cognitive architectures, docking, function optimization, cognitive modeling, stress
Posted on: Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Broad Research Area: AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision, Other, Social Computing / Social Informatics
Research Interests:
Sue Kase recently did a PhD using a parallel GA on the TeraGrid to optimise the fit of a cognitive model. The data was for stressed and non-stressed and caffeinated and non-caffeinated subjects. The changes in the parameters told us how cognition changed between these groups (sometimes called docking), and her work shows that this approach can be productive but computationally expensive (http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/ritterKKBS09.pdf). This is an open area, with more data, more models, and more algorithms possible. We are also creating 1000-node cognitive model networks, and it should be an exciting lab for those interested in these areas of computation, intelligence, and cognition.
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