Paul Bello Research My research is focused on developing an adequate theory of propositional attitude usage within the context of computational cognitive architecture. Most of my work has been (and will continue to be in) the cognitive architecture of belief as an attitude, including its development in typical and atypical populations. I’m also interested in studying and computationally modeling deontic reasoning and moral judgment.

Journal Articles

 P. Bello & N. Cassimatis (submitted). The Development of Reasoning About False Beliefs: A Computational Cognitive Model of Early Competence. Cognitive Science.

N. Cassimatis, M. Bugajska, S. Dugas, A. Murugesan & P. Bello. (In Press).  An Architecture for Adaptive Algorithmic Hybrids.  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics Part B.

N. Cassimatis, P. Bello & P. Langley (2008). Ability, Breadth and Parsmiony in Computational Models of Higher-Order Cognition. Cognitive Science 32(8): pp 1304-1322.

H. Wang & P. Bello (2007). Commentary: Ritualization as Choice of Actions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29(6): pp 634-635.

S. Bringsjord, K. Arkoudas & P. Bello (2006). Toward a General Logicist Framework for Engineering Ethically Regulated Robots. IEEE Intelligent Systems:  Special Issue on Machine Ethics 21(4): 38-44.

Y. Yang, S. Bringsjord & P. Bello (2006). The Mental Possible Worlds Mechanism and the Lobster Problem: An Analysis of a Complex GRE Logical Reasoning Task. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 18(2): 157-168.

S. Bringsjord, A. Shilliday, J. Taylor, P. Bello, Y. Yang, & K. Arkoudas (2006). Harnessing Intelligent Agent Technology to Superteach Reasoning. International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning 2(2): 88-116.

P. Bello & S. Bringsjord (2003). HILBERT & PATRIC: Hybrid Intelligent Agent Technology for Teaching Context-Independent Reasoning. Educational Technology & Society 6(3): 30-42.

S. Bringsjord, P. Bello, & D. Ferrucci (2001). Creativity, the Turing Test, and the (Better) Lovelace Test. Minds and Machines 11: 3-27.

Workshop and Conference Proceedings

P. Bello (2008). Cognitive Development: Informing the Design of Architectures for Naturally Intelligent Systems. Proceedings of the AAAI 2008 Workshop on Naturally Inspired Artificial Intelligence.

N. Cassimatis & P. Bello (2007). Cognitive Modeling as Revolutionary Science. In Proceedings of the AAAI 2007 Workshop on Evaluating Architectures for Intelligence

P. Bello, P. Bignoli & N. Cassimatis (2007).  Attention and Association Explain the Emergence of Reasoning About False Beliefs in Young Children.  In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling.

N. Cassimatis, M. Bugajska, S. Dugas, A. Murugesan & P. Bello. (2007).  An Architecture for Adaptive Algorithmic Hybrids.  In Proceedings of the AAAI 2007 Annual Conference. Vancouver, BC, Canada.

P. Bello, N.L. Cassimatis & K. McDonald (2007). Some Computational Desiderata for Recognizing and Reasoning About the Intentions of Others.  In Proceedings of the AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium on Intentions in Intelligent Systems.

P. Bello & N.L. Cassimatis (2006). Developmental Accounts of Theory-of-Mind Acquisition: Achieving Clarity via Computational Cognitive Modeling.  In Proceedings of the 28^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

H. Wang, C. Coble & P. Bello (2006). Cognitive-Affective Interactions in Human Decision-Making: A Neurocomputational Approach.  In Proceedings of the 28^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

P. Bello & N.L. Cassimatis (2006).  Understanding other Minds: A Cognitive Modeling Approach.  In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling.

P. Bello (2006). New Problems for AI in Military Simulation: Are Multilevel Heterogeneous Models the Solution? In Proceedings of the 2006 AAAI Spring Symposium: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Cognitive Science Principles Meet AI-Hard Problems.  Eds. C. Lebiere & R. Wray.

K. Arkoudas, S. Bringsjord & P. Bello (2005).  Toward Ethical Robots via Mechanized Deontic Logic.  In Proceedings of the 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium on Machine Ethics.  Ed. M. Anderson.

Y. Yang & P. Bello (2005). Some Empirical Results Concerning Deontic Reasoning: Models, Schema, or Both? In Proceedings of the 27^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

P. Bello & S. Bringsjord (2002). Towards a Formal Architecture for Agent–Driven Instruction for Context Independent Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Computing and Philosophy.

Background

I received my bachelors of science in Computer and Systems Engineering with a dual major in Philosophy from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1999.  I stayed on at RPI and completed my M.S. in Computer Science in 2001, and received the Ph.D. in Cognitive Science in 2005 under the supervision of Selmer Bringsjord.

Links

Human Level Intelligence Laboratory @ Rensselaer

Rensselaer AI and Reasoning Laboratory (RAIR)

Contact

email: paul DOT bello AT alum DOT rpi DOT edu