Design of metacognitive expectations of cognitive functions through ontological representations

Abstract

This paper presents a model of metacognitive expectations about the running time of cognitive functions in the metacognitive architecture CARINA. A formal and ontological representation is created that establishes the relationship between the process of observing a fact in the self-model and a belief stored in the semantic memory of the system. The cognitive ontology evidenced tracing and interchange information process among different kind of memories, such as: sensorial memory, semantic memory, procedural memory, prospective memory and working memory. The experiment carried out demonstrated the functionality of the model where expectations were generated for each observation and could be compared with the observed values in real time. Another type of result was the conceptual advance of an expectation, the formal mathematical representation, the design of the ontology and the model as a mechanism of implementation in CARINA architecture.

Keywords

• artificial intelligence
• expectations
• computational metacognition
• cognitive architecture CARINA
• cognitive agent