Toward a Computational Theory of Evidence-Based Reasoning for Instructable Cognitive Agents

no code implementations • 9 Oct 2019 • Gheorghe Tecuci, Dorin Marcu, Mihai Boicu, Steven Meckl, Chirag Uttamsingh

Generalizing from the research and development of cognitive agents in several such domains, this paper presents progress toward a computational theory for the development of instructable cognitive agents for evidence-based reasoning tasks.

Decision Making

Co-Arg: Cogent Argumentation with Crowd Elicitation

no code implementations • 2 Oct 2018 • Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Lou Kaiser, Chirag Uttamsingh, Navya Kalale

This paper presents Co-Arg, a new type of cognitive assistant to an intelligence analyst that enables the synergistic integration of analyst imagination and expertise, computer knowledge and critical reasoning, and crowd wisdom, to draw defensible and persuasive conclusions from masses of evidence of all types, in a world that is changing all the time.