Strategy representation : an analysis of planning knowledge / Andrew S. Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Andrew S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental representation.

Planning.

Reasoning (Psychology).

Physical Description:

ix, 349 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, NJ. : L. Erlbaum, 2004.

Summary:

"Strategy Representation: An Analysis of Planning Knowledge" describes an innovative methodology for identifying the breadth of concepts used in strategic reasoning, where the analysis of 372 strategies across 10 planning domains is used to identify

Contents:

1 Strategies and Cognition 1

1.1 Cognitive Modeling 1

1.2 What Is a Strategy? 4

1.3 The Scale of Research 5

1.4 Project Overview 6

1.5 Research Opportunities 9

2 Strategic Analogies 11

2.1 Thinking About Planning Cases 11

2.2 Theories of Analogical Reasoning 14

2.3 Strategies Are Shared Relational Structures 16

2.4 Strategies Include Reasoning Processes 18

2.5 Analogy as an Investigative Tool 21

3 Representational Requirements 23

3.1 Representation in Models of Planning 23

3.2 Collecting Strategies From Real-World Domains 26

3.3 Pre-Formal Strategy Representations 30

3.4 Recurring Strategy Patterns 34

3.5 Organizing Representation Terms 35

3.6 The Theory of Mind in Strategy Representations 42

4 Strategy Representations 47

4.1 Animal Behavior (37 Strategies) 49

4.2 Business (62 Strategies) 68

4.3 Counting (20 Strategies) 97

4.4 Education (32 Strategies) 107

4.5 Immunology (21 Strategies) 121

4.6 Machiavelli (60 Strategies) 133

4.7 Performance (39 Strategies) 160

4.8 Relationship (22 Strategies) 176

4.9 Science (34 Strategies) 186

4.10 Warfare (45 Strategies) 203

5 Conceptual Index to Strategies 222

6 Representational Areas 272

6.1 Time (23 terms) 267

6.2 States (18 terms) 268

6.3 Events (11 terms) 269

6.4 Space (40 terms) 270

6.5 Physical Entities (24 terms) 272

6.6 Values and Quantities (21 terms) 273

6.7 Classes and Instances (21 terms) 275

6.8 Sets (31 terms) 276

6.9 Agents (22 terms) 278

6.10 Agent Relationships (18 terms) 279

6.11 Communities and Organizations (10 terms) 281

6.12 Goals (27 terms) 282

6.13 Goal Themes (6 terms) 283

6.14 Plans (30 terms) 284

6.15 Plan Elements (30 terms) 286

6.16 Resources (16 terms) 288

6.17 Abilities (13 terms) 289

6.18 Activities (16 terms) 291

6.19 Communication Acts (23 terms) 292

6.20 Information Acts (12 terms) 294

6.21 Agent Interaction (21 terms) 295

6.22 Physical Interaction (13 terms) 296

6.23 Managing Knowledge (30 terms) 297

6.24 Similarity Comparisons (16 terms) 299

6.25 Memory Retrieval (3 terms) 300

6.26 Emotions (8 terms) 301

6.27 Explanations (17 terms) 302

6.28 World Envisionment (48 terms) 304

6.29 Execution Envisionment (23 terms) 307

6.30 Causes of Failure (31 terms) 308

6.31 Managing Expectations (8 terms) 310

6.32 Other Agent Reasoning (8 terms) 311

6.33 Threat Detection (15 terms) 312

6.34 Goal Management (27 terms) 314

6.35 Planning Modalities (17 terms) 315

6.36 Planning Goals (28 terms) 317

6.37 Plan Construction (30 terms) 319

6.38 Plan Adaptation (18 terms) 321

6.39 Design (8 terms) 322

6.40 Decisions (38 terms) 323

6.41 Scheduling (22 terms) 325

6.42 Monitoring (18 terms) 327

6.43 Execution Modalities (11 terms) 329

6.44 Execution Control (29 terms) 330

6.45 Repetitive Execution (16 terms) 332

6.46 Plan Following (30 terms) 333

6.47 Observation of Execution (28 terms) 335

6.48 Body Interaction (15 terms) 337.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-342) and indexes.

ISBN:

0805845275

OCLC:

52554246