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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A248023. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Computer Generated Forces (CGFs) are important players in Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) exercises. A problem with CGFs is that they do not exhibit sufficient human behaviors to make their use effective. The SOAR approach has yielded a human cognitive model that can be applied to CGFs, but this is extremely complex. The product of the research reported in this thesis is a much less complex behavioral framework for a CGF that is easy to validate, revise, and maintain. To support this, an existing, domain independent CGF architecture is discussed and applied to an experimental CGF. Techniques for modeling the knowledge and behaviors of any CGF via semantic nets are presented. A process for transforming the semantic nets into fuzzy controllers is outlined, and pertinent issues regarding fuzzy controllers are discussed. Lastly, a method for making time critical decisions via fuzzy logic is presented..
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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A256633. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Current computer generated forces (CGFs) in the 'synthetic battlespace', a training arena used by the military, exhibit several deficiencies. Human actors within the battlespace rapidly identify these CGFs and defeat them using unrealistic and potentially fatal tactics, reducing the overall effectiveness of this training arena. Simulators attached to the synthetic battlespace host local threat systems, leading to training inconsistencies when different simulators display the same threat at different levels of fidelity. Finally, current CGFs are engineered 'from the ground up', often without exploiting commonalities with other existing CGFs, increasing development (and ultimately training) costs. This thesis addresses these issues by proposing a domain-independent design methodology and a supporting software architecture for the Distributed Mission Training Integrated Threat Environment (DMTITE). This architecture uses approaches from software engineering and database management and identifies an extensible knowledge representation to support CGFs in various domains (land, surface, and air), shifting development efforts from 'structure implementation' to 'knowledge implementation' CGFs developed using this paradigm also have access to domain-independent features such as skills vectors and a combat psychology model, which act as a time- limited Turing test by making CGF behaviors unpredictable (but not random) and believable..
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This digital document is an article from The Psychological Record, published by Psychological Record on March 22, 1999. The length of the article is 7481 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Experimental conditions explored the development of fallacious rules and assessed the rates and durations of superstitious responding by children under the influence of standard and second-order response-independent reinforcement. During the presentation of computer-generated math problems, subjects in Experiment 1 had access to a computer and keyboard. Group 1 received second-order, random-time (RT) reinforcement by way of a coin toss graphic procedure (mean reinforcement rate of 1/min). This procedure rendered an effect analogous to a "slot-machine" and matching icons produced monetary reinforcement displayed on the computer screen. A second group obtained response-independent reinforcement according to a standard random-time (RT) 30-s schedule (mean reinforcement rate of 2/min). A control group received no scheduled consequences but was exposed to the same demand conditions. After 10 min, students in all groups answered questions regarding "why" they had performed problems. Subsequently, experimentalsubjects were exposed to the same conditions for 10 min after whichreinforcement was terminated; however, a series of problems remained available for solving. Over the course of the experiment, and particularly during extinction, Group 1 subjects performed at higher rates and longer durations. Experiment 2 replicated Experiment 1, but it examined the effects of second-order response-independent reinforcement on fixed-time (FT) schedules. Students who had been exposed to second-order response-independent reinforcement demonstrated higher rates and longer durations of problem solving. Outcomes suggest that, independent of FT or RT schedules, second-order response-independent contingencies appear to generate elaborate fallacious rules and particularly long durations of superstitious responding.

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Title: Contingencies of superstition: self-generated rules and responding during second-order response-independent schedules.
Author: H.A. Chris Ninness
Publication:The Psychological Record (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1999
Publisher: Psychological Record
Volume: 49 Issue: 2 Page: 221(2)

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