A Cognitively-Based Constructivist Approach to Memory and Reasoning

This extended abstract introduces the foundational notions behind constructive memory. The work demonstrates these concepts through computational implementations. Memory in a computational system is usually taken to be a place filled with things called “memories". These places are indexed by either knowing its physical location or its content. For situated design agents, however, memory is a reflection of how the system has adapted to its environment. Recollection should be more than looking up records, it should be past experiences guiding active ones. The inspiration behind the constructivist approach is two phrases. The first is from Clancey (1997) paraphrasing Dewey