The focus of this paper are actions in which agents employ instruments in order to achieve desired outcomes. I explore the ontological structure of such actions and the semantic fe...
Simon’s The Sciences of the Artificial is rightly influential as a founding text in design research in the information systems field (IS). Simon’s contributions in the same vo...
Most reinforcement learning models of animal conditioning operate under the convenient, though fictive, assumption that Pavlovian conditioning concerns prediction learning whereas...
Peter Dayan, Yael Niv, Ben Seymour, Nathaniel D. D...
Web sites are now considered an extension of the entire business, not just an additional channel or storefront or a simple information portal for the company. Creating an effectiv...
We all spend time every day looking for information in our email, yet we know little about this refinding process. Some users expend considerable preparatory effort creating compl...
Steve Whittaker, Tara Matthews, Julian A. Cerruti,...