(Software Engineering and Formal Methods, 2020) Cerone, Antonio
In this paper we present a basic language for describing
human behaviour and reasoning and present the cognitive architecture
underlying the semantics of the language. The language is illustrated
through a number of examples showing its ability to model human reasoning, problem solving, deliberate behaviour and automatic behaviour.
We expect that the simple notation and its intuitive semantics may
address the needs of practitioners from non matematical backgrounds,
in particular psychologists, linguists and other social scientists. The language usage is twofold, aiming at the formal modelling and analysis
of interactive systems and the comparison and validation of alternative
models of memory and cognition.