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Contextual Categorization: A Mechanism Linking Perception and Knowledge in Modeling and Simulating Perceived Events as Actions

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2001)

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The specific objective of this paper is to introduce the computer model ACACIA (Action by Contextually Automated Categorizing Interactive Agents) capable of simulating the way in which context is taken into account for the interpretation of perceived actions elaborated by a number of autonomous moving agents in a bidimensional space. With this in mind, we will examine some different modeling approaches in Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life and emphasize the strong and weak points of each approach in relation to the set of issues addressed by our theory based on Contextual Categorization. Second, we provide a theoretical explanation of how contextual categorization accounts for temporal and environmental context to interpret ongoing situations in terms of perceived action. Finally, we describe the computer implementation of ACACIA, and we propose a preliminary simulation of a simple situation using StarLogo software.

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  1. Laboratoire CNRS-ESA 7021 de Cognition et Activités Mentales Finalisées, Université Paris 8, 2, rue de la Liberté, 93526, Saint-Denis Cedex 02, France

    Elisabetta Zibetti & Charles Tijus

  2. GTICC (Grup de Tecnologia Informàtica en Ciències del Comportament), Departamento de Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento, Facultad de Psicología Universitat de Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebrón, 171, 08035, Barcelone

    Vicenç Quera & Francesc Salvador Beltran

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara, 06533, Turkey

    Varol Akman

  2. Department of Computer and Management Sciences, University of Trento, 38100, Trento, Italy

    Paolo Bouquet

  3. Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, 2251 Angell Hall, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1003, USA

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Zibetti, E., Quera, V., Beltran, F.S., Tijus, C. (2001). Contextual Categorization: A Mechanism Linking Perception and Knowledge in Modeling and Simulating Perceived Events as Actions. In: Akman, V., Bouquet, P., Thomason, R., Young, R. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44607-9_30

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