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POLITICS: Automated Ideological Reasoning *
Author(s) -
Carbonell Jaime G.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.498
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1551-6709
pISSN - 0364-0213
DOI - 10.1207/s15516709cog0201_3
Subject(s) - ideology , perspective (graphical) , politics , representation (politics) , cognition , domain (mathematical analysis) , epistemology , cognitive science , cognitive systems , computer science , knowledge representation and reasoning , psychology , sociology , artificial intelligence , political science , mathematics , law , mathematical analysis , philosophy , neuroscience
POLITICS is a system of computer programs which simulates humans in comprehending and responding to world events from a given political or ideological perspective. The primary theoretical motivations were: (1) the implemention of a functional system which applies the knowledge structures of Schank and Abelson (1977) to the domain of simulating political belief systems; (2) the development of a tentative theory of intentional goal conflicts and counterplanning. Secondary goals of the POLITICS project include developing a representation for belief systems, investigating cognitive processes such as goal‐directed inferencing, and the integration of several types of knowledge representations into a functional system.