The Spiral Discovery Method: An Interpretable Tuning Model for CogInfoCom Channels

Adam Csapo; Péter Baranyi

doi:10.20965/jaciii.2012.p0358

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JACIII Vol.16 No.2 pp. 358-367

doi: 10.20965/jaciii.2012.p0358

(2012)

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The Spiral Discovery Method: An Interpretable Tuning Model for CogInfoCom Channels

Adam Csapo^*,** and Péter Baranyi^*

^*Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kende u. 13-17, Budapest 1111, Hungary

^**Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economic, Magyar Tudosok Krt. 2, Budapest 1117, Hungary

Received:

September 15, 2011

Accepted:

November 15, 2011

Published:

March 20, 2012

Keywords:

cognitive infocommunications, CogInfoCom channels, CogInfoCom messages, cognitive artifacts

Abstract

Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom) messages that are used to carry information on the state of the same high-level concept can be regarded as belonging to a CogInfoCom channel. Such channels can be generated using any kind of parametric model. By changing the values of the parameters, it is possible to arrive at a large variety of CogInfoCom messages, a subset of which can belong to a CogInfoCom channel – provided they are perceptually well-suited to the purpose of conveying information on the same highlevel concept. Thus, for any CogInfoCom channel, we may speak of a parameter space and a perceptual space that is created by the totality of messages in the CogInfoCom channel. In this paper, we argue that in general, the relationship between the parameter space and the perceptual space is highly non-linear. For this reason, it is extremely difficult for the designer of a CogInfoCom channel to tune the parameters in such a way that the resulting CogInfoCom messages are perceptually continuous, and suitable to carry information on a single high-level concept. To address this problem, we propose a cognitive artifact that uses a rank concept available in tensor algebra to provide the designer of CogInfoCom channels with practical tradeoffs between complexity and interpretability. We refer to the artifact as the Spiral Discovery Method (SDM).

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A. Csapo and P. Baranyi, “The Spiral Discovery Method: An Interpretable Tuning Model for CogInfoCom Channels,” J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.16 No.2, pp. 358-367, 2012.

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The Spiral Discovery Method: An Interpretable Tuning Model for CogInfoCom Channels

Adam Csapo*,** and Péter Baranyi*

Adam Csapo^*,** and Péter Baranyi^*