Research

This page describes the research work that I've done and am currently working on.

Gradual Strategy Acquisition

This term, I'm attempting to build a Soar model of how children acquire addition strategies. I'm starting with Randy Jones' GIPS system, which uses flexible means-ends analysis along with probabilistic learning techniques to demonstrate the gradual shift in strategy that occurs as children acquire new techniques for performing addition. I'm going to attempt to use SCA to produce similar results.

For more details, follow some of the below links.

• Soar 7.1 Proposal. A proposal for doing Soar as a dynamically loaded Tcl extension. Includes binary releases for Win32, Macintosh PPC, and a full source release for UNIX and the patently curious.

• Web Soar. A Java interface to a Soar7 server. You can run an eight-puzzle demo and enter real-live Soar commands.

• SCA2.1. A slightly optimized and somewhat simpler implementation of Doug Pearson's SCA2.

• Children's Addition Simulator. A simulator for children's addition strategies, along with an implementation of the SUM strategy. (Requires Soar 7.0.3)

• Writeup for EECS 592. A writeup of what I've done up until the end of the term this term. I used this as my "advanced AI" class project.

• Proposal. A more detailed description of the project. I used this proposoal as my project description for EECS 592.

• Progress Reports. Almost weekly status reports.

• On-Line Journal. An on-line diary of my progress, problems, triumphs, defeats. (So I can re-live this again and again :-).

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  Christopher R. Waterson waterson@eecs.umich.edu
  
  Last Updated: April 18, 1997