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SUB-AREAS IN PORTFOLIO:
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Program Components, Goals, and
Strategy
Human-System Interface
(Subtask 2311/H)
Advance research on mixed human - machine systems to aid inference,
communication, prediction, planning, scheduling, and decision making.
• Includes “Robust Decision Making” Discovery Challenge Thrust (DCT)
Primary Strategy:
• Forge useful connections among experts in math, computation,
neuroscience, and cognitive behavior.
• Seek algorithms for adaptive intelligence inspired by brain science 3
TechHorizons
Priority Key Technology Areas
(COGNITIVE MODELING AND ROBUST DECISION-MAKING, RSL)
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All Projects – 6 Clusters
(For program review purposes only)
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CLUSTER one
Former AFOSR Program Manager Jerome Busemeyer started this theme. It has
now become main-stream.
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McClelland MURI (2007)
Neural Basis of Decision Making
EVIDENCE LEVEL
dy1/dt = I1-gy1–bf(y2)+x1 Y1
dy2/dt = I2-gy2–bf(y1)+x2
f(y) = [y]+
Y2
• In time controlled tasks, choose
response 1 if y1-y2 > 0
Time (sec.)
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McClelland MURI (2007)
Neural Basis of Decision Making
d (t ) R (t ) R (t )
d (t ) kS (1 et ) 12
How does reward for fast decisions
affect how information is integrated ?
Three Alternative Hypotheses:
1. Reward acts as an information input from the reward
cue onset to the end of the integration period
REWARD BIAS
UNDERESTIMATES
OPTIMAL BIAS;
BOTH DECLINE
TO A NON-ZERO
PLATEAU
X X
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CLUSTER three
Sridhar Mahadevan
UMass Amherst
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S. Osentoski and S. Mahadevan, UMass, Amherst
CLUSTER four
Includes Sub-Program in
Mathematical Foundations of
Machine Learning
(from PBD 709 funds)
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Mathematical Development of
Cultural Consensus Theory
The Problem:
• Informants or respondents share culture-specific
knowledge, assumptions and beliefs
Scientific Challenge:
Develop new mathematics for dimension-
reduction problems encountered in pattern
recognition and information fusion.
Approach:
FRAME THEORY -- a rigorous infrastructure for
Prof. Casazza study of redundant linear measurements –
developed mainly by Peter Casazza
Recent Publications:
P.G. Casazza, M. Fickus, D.G. Mixon and J.C. Tremain, The Bourgain-
Tzafriri conjecture and concrete constructions of non-pavable
projections, to appear in Operators and Matrices.
Goal:
Stimulate productive new collaborations with
scientists in AFRL’s Human Effectiveness
Directorate on a broad range of problems in
cognitive science
Prof. Raja
Parasuraman
Scientific Questions:
• What are the constraints and limits of
mental navigation?
• Do individuals differ in this ability?
• How and why is the ability fragile?
Grid path is held in • Can a computational model (ACT-R)
“The Mind’s Eye” account for the phenomena?
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Path Visualization Performance:
Depends on No. of Steps between Re-Visits
Scientific Challenge:
Invent a computational
engine to encode visual
scenes and to reconstruct
them from spike-timing data
SUBSEQUENT STAGES
ASSUMED INVERTIBLE
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Analog Signal Recovery from a Model
Bipolar Cell & Spike-Timing Analysis
Willard.Larkin@afosr.af.mil