Staff from CIC traveled to Edinburgh for Advances in Cognitive Systems 2026. Our team had two oral presentations and a poster at the conference.
- James Kirk presented a paper (co-authored with Steven Jones) on the importance of metareasoning for troubleshooting and how to exploit architectural signals to improve metareasoning.
- Bob Wray discussed a paper (co-authored with Moritz Schmidt of the Technical University of Augsburg and Steven Jones at the CIC) in the ACS poster session. This paper discusses our recent experiences using coding models to support the full gamut of Soar development—from eliciting requirements and writing specs to debugging Soar to updating and maintaining the Soar kernel.
- Bob Wray presented a John-Laird-authored paper on the cognitive capabilities agents need to earn individual users’ trust. This paper was one of several that received an “Ada Lovelace Outstanding Paper” award of a cool Edinburgh Castle magnet!
