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Journal of Mind Theory |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
Journal of Mind Theory
An ASLab Journal
We all realise that the number of publications in the field of cognitive science
is continuously growing. This makes the task of getting a state-of-the-art
picture of the field an impossible task for any normal human.
We feel the need for simplification and focusing. We believe that the pursuit
of the ultimate understanding of mind shall be easier if we are able to get rid
of the decorative literature. While that kind of text usually embellishes
the many insights on the nature of mind, a narrower focus on the very core
issues is absolutely neccessary. Succinctness becomes a major target.
Hence, in the old way of the hard sciences, we strive for terse formalisations
that will minimise the need of ink and paper and will hopefully convey precise,
non-interpretable expressions of theories or hypotheses on mind nature.
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Under this programme we are trying to launch yet another journal which intends
this capture of a formal science of mind. Obviously formality and
abstraction has been attempted in the past, but instead of focusing on a
concrete formalism and/or a concrete target for formalisation, we open the domain to the mind at large without
commiting to a particular language. The commitment is only with the objective:
an unified formal theory of mind.
If we are succesful in this simplifying and focusing attempt, then there will be
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Intelligence, control and the artificial mind |
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Sunday, 14 February 2010 |
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Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be at an impasse. The old vision of AI which started as the search for a computer-based approximation of the human mind is not delivering. The initial
hype opened the door to ample criticism following failures to fulfill some bold predictions. Cognitive systems research (CSR) has replaced AI at the forefront of this research programme. But CSR is really just a new name for the same set of objectives, designed to elude the tag of failure. The problem with this programme may not be in the methods but in the naïve conceptualizations that have driven and are still driving the research.
Full reference: PerAda Magazine (2010) 938–946
Link: Web Article
A PDF version can be downloaded here.
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Principles for consciousness in integrated cognitive control |
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Wednesday, 14 November 2007 |
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The article Principles for consciousness in integrated cognitive control by Ricardo Sanz, Ignacio López, Manuel Rodríguez and Carlos Hernández has been published in the journal Neural Networks
In this paper we will argue that given certain conditions for the evolution of biological controllers, they will necessarily evolve in the direction of
incorporating consciousness capabilities. We will also see what are the necessary mechanics for the provision of these capabilities and extrapolate
this vision to the world of artificial systems.
Full reference: Neural Networks 20 (2007) 938–946
DOI: j.neunet.2007.09.012
A preprint version can be downloaded here.
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Design patterns for distributed control applications |
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Monday, 27 November 2006 |
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Arndt Lüder and Jörn Peschke, Otto-von-Guericke University,
Ricardo Sanz, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Within industrial automation the architectural trend goes in the direction of distributed control systems with distributed decision making based on distributed intelligence. Several approaches have been made in that direction resulting in a set of different applicable structures and architectures. Within the different levels of control the different structures will provide the possibility to investigate similar structures and to deduce general design pattern for distributed control systems on the different levels. For the level of field control systems this deduction is made in this article.
Keywords: Distributed control applications / Design patterns / IEC 61499 / Distributed field control systems / Reusability of control software
Automation Technology in Practice, Vol. 3, 2006
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ICT embraces control |
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Tuesday, 19 September 2006 |
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Information and communication technology embraces control.
A Status report prepared by the IFAC Coordinating Committee
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Computers, Cognition and Communication
Wolfgang A. Halang, Ricardo Sanz , Robert Babuska & Hubert Roth
A new approach in control engineering (‘‘Information Processing for Action’’) is presented, in which control, computers, communication and
cognition play equal roˆ les in addressing real-life problems from very small-scale devices to very large-scale industrial processes and non-technical
applications. Thus, the C2 paradigm of ‘‘Computers for Control’’ is shifting towards the C4 paradigm of ‘‘Computers, Communication and
Cognition for Control’’ providing an integrated perspective on the roˆ le computers play in control systems and control plays in computer systems.
This change is mainly due to new developments in computers and knowledge management, and the rapidly emerging field of telecommunications
providing a number of possible applications in control. Control engineers will have to master computer and software technologies to be able to
build the systems of the future, and software engineers need to use control concepts to master the ever-increasing complexity of computing systems.
Annual Reviews in Control, volume 30 (2006), pages 31–40
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