TY - GEN
T1 - A high-performance approach to model calibration and validation
AU - Kase, Sue E.
AU - Ritter, Frank E.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - A new model validation approach is presented that integrates parallel processing on high-performance computing clusters with random search algorithms to fit cognitive models to human performance data. The efficiency, accuracy, and non-biasness of this approach surpasses the prevalent manual optimization techniques; results in exceptional model to human data fits; and is available and extendable to other parameterized models, search algorithms, cognitive architectures, and cluster computing resources. Results from testing the validation approach using a prototype cognitive model of a serial subtraction task, the ACT-R cognitive architecture, and 15 individual fits are described.
AB - A new model validation approach is presented that integrates parallel processing on high-performance computing clusters with random search algorithms to fit cognitive models to human performance data. The efficiency, accuracy, and non-biasness of this approach surpasses the prevalent manual optimization techniques; results in exceptional model to human data fits; and is available and extendable to other parameterized models, search algorithms, cognitive architectures, and cluster computing resources. Results from testing the validation approach using a prototype cognitive model of a serial subtraction task, the ACT-R cognitive architecture, and 15 individual fits are described.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80855153290
SN - 9781615672769
T3 - 18th Annual Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2009, BRiMS 2009
SP - 39
EP - 46
BT - 18th Annual Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2009, BRiMS 2009
T2 - 18th Annual Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2009, BRiMS 2009
Y2 - 30 March 2009 through 2 April 2009
ER -