PUBLICATIONS

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Best, B. J. (2019). The emergence of the spacing effect from the interaction of novelty and decay. Manuscript in preparation.

Best, B. J. (2013). Inducing models of behavior from expert task performance in virtual environments. Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory. Advance online publication. Doi:10.1007/s10588-012-9136-8.

Gonzalez, C., Best, B. J., Healy, A. F., Kole, J. A., & Bourne, L. E. (2011). A cognitive modeling account of simultaneous learning and fatigue effects. Cognitive Systems Research, 12, pp. 19-32. Elsevier.

Lebiere, C., & Best, B. J. (2009). From microcognition to macrocognition: Architectural support for asymmetric adversarial behavior. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 3(2),176-193.

SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Best, B. J., Kennedy, G. W., & St. Amant, R. (2015). Behavioral representation in modeling and simulation: introduction to CMOT special issue – BriMS 2012. Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory 21(3): 243-246.

Best, B. J., & Lebiere, C. (2006). Cognitive Agents Interacting in Real and Virtual Worlds. In Cognition and Multi-agent Interaction: From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation, R. Sun (Ed.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Kennedy, G. W., Ritter, F. E., & Best, B. J. (2011). Behavioral representation in modeling and simulation introduction to CMOT special issue—BRiMS 2010. Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory, 17, 225-228.

Kennedy, W. G., Ritter, F. E., Best, B. J. (2010). Behavioral Representation in Modeling and Simulation Introduction to CMOT Special Issue—BRiMS 2009. Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory, 16(3), 217-219.

Lebiere, C., Archer, R., Best, B., & Schunk, D. (2008). Modeling Pilot Performance with an Integrated Task Network and Cognitive Architecture Approach. In Foyle, D.C, and Hooey, B. L. (Eds.), Human Performance Modeling in Aviation (pp. 106-143). CRC Press/Taylor & Francis: Boca Raton, FL.

Leiden, K., & Best, B. J. (2007). A Cross-Model Comparison of Human Performance Modeling Tools Applied to Aviation Safety. In D. C. Foyle &B. L. Hooey (Eds.) Human performance modeling in aviation: Surface operations and synthetic vision systems. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Ritter, F. E., Kennedy, W. G., Best, B. J. (2012). The best papers from BRIMS 2011: Models of users and teams interacting. Advance online publication. Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory.

PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

Best, B. J. (2006). Cognitive Approaches to the Traveling Salesperson Problem: Perceptual Complexity that Produces Computational Simplicity. In Papers from the American Artificial Intelligence Association (AAAI) Spring Symposium, Technical Report SS-06-02. AAAI Press: Menlo Park, CA.

Best, B.J., Dixon, K.R., Speed, A., Fleetwood, M.J. (2008). Modeling an Unstructured Driving Domain: A Comparison of Two Cognitive Frameworks. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, Providence, RI.

Best, B.J., Furjanic, C., Gerhart, N., Fincham, J. M., Gluck, K. A.,Gunzelmann, G., Krusmark, M., (2009). Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Efficient Exploration of Cognitive Architectures and Cognitive Models. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Cognitive Modeling (paper 252), Manchester, United Kingdom.

Best, B. J., Gerhart, N., & Leibere, C. (2010). Extracting the Ontological Structure of OpenCyc for Reuse and Portability of Cognitive Models. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Behavioral Representation in Modeling and Simulation.

Best, B. J., Gonzalez, C., Young, M. D., Healy, A. F., & Bourne, L.E., Jr. (2007). Modeling automaticity and strategy selection in dynamic visual detection. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (pp. 3-11). Orlando, FL:Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization.

Best, B. J., & Lebiere, C. (2009). Software Integration for Computational Cognitive Models in Virtual Environments: The CASEMIL Middleware Infrastructure. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation.

Best, B. J., Lebiere, C., & Gacy, M. (2005). Leveraging a Cognitive Architecture to Help a Robot Walk and Chew Gum at the Same Time. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Behavior Representation In Modeling and Simulation.

Best, B. J. & Lovett, M. (2006). Inducing a Cognitive Model from Examples Provided by an Optimal Algorithm. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling.

Best, B. J. & Simon, H. A. (2000). Simulating Human Performance on the Traveling Salesman Problem. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 42-49). Veenendaal, Netherlands:Universal Press.

Lebiere, C. & Best, B. J. (2009). Balancing Long-Term Reinforcement and Short-Term Inhibition. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS

Best, B. J, & Gerhart, N. (2011). Learning from examples using CIBRE:a cognitive instance-based rule engine. Poster presented at the 20th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, Sundance, UT.

Best, B. J. & Gunzelmann, G. (2005). Hierarchically-Based Perceptual Grouping in ACT-R. Presented at the Eleventh Annual ACT-R Workshop.

Myers, C. W., Zachary, W., Cooke, N. J., Lewis, M., McNeese, M. D., &Best, B. J. (2009). Synthetic agents as full-fledged teammates. Symposium presented at 53rd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, San Antonio, TX.