"Conscious" Mattie


Welcome to "Conscious" Mattie's home page.  CMattie is a current project of the "Conscious" Software Research Group at The University of Memphis' Institute of Intelligent Systems.  CMattie is the first attempt to design and implement an intelligent agent under the framework of Bernard Baars' Global Workspace Theory.  She is a successor to Virtual Mattie, and a sister agent of Ida.


Published Papers About CMattie:

Anwar, Ashraf and Franklin, Stan.  (forthcoming).  Sparse distributed memory as a tool for "Conscious" Software Agents".

Bogner, Myles, Maletic, Jonathan, and Franklin, Stan.  (In Press).  ConAg: a reusable framework for developing "conscious" software agents.  The International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools.  River Edge, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Company.

Bogner, Myles, Ramamurthy, Uma and Franklin, Stan. (In Press).  "Consciousness" and conceptual learning in a socially situated agent.  Dauthenhahn, Kerstin (Ed.).  Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology. Amsterdam:  John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Franklin, Stan.  (1999).  Action selection and language generation in "Conscious" Software Agents.  Proc. Workshop on Behavior Planning for Life-Like Characters and Avatars, i3 Spring Days '99, March, Sitges, Spain.

Franklin, Stan and Graesser, Art.  (In Press).  Models of consciousness.  Consciousness and Cognition.

Franklin, Stan, Kelemen, Arpad, and McCauley, Lee.  (1998).  IDA:  a cognitive agent architecture.  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2646-2651.

McCauley, Thomas L. and Franklin, Stan.  (1998).  An architecture for emotion.  Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium entitled Emotional and Intelligent: The Tangled Knot of Cognition.  Menlo Park, CA:  AAAI Press, 122 - 127.

Negatu, Aregahegn and Franklin , Stan.  (1999).  Behavioral learning for adaptive software agents. Intelligent Systems:  Proceedings of the ISCA 5th International Conference (Denver, Colorado, June 1999).  Raleigh NC: International Society for Computers and Their Applications - ISCA.

Ramamurthy, Uma, Franklin, Stan, and Negatu, Aregahegn . "Learning Concepts in Software Agents." In Fifth International Conference of the Society for Adaptive Behavior-SAB98. Zurich, Switzerland, MIT Press, 1998.

Ramamurthy, Uma, Myles Bogner, and Stan Franklin. "Conscious Learning In An Adaptive Software Agent." Proc. of The Second Asia Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning. Canberra, Australia, 24-27 Nov. 1998.

Zhang, Zhaohua, Dasgupta, Dipankar, and Franklin, Stan (1998).  Metacognition in software agents using classifier systems.  Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Madison, Wisconsin.  Cambridge:  MIT Press, 83-88.

Zhang, Zhaohua, Franklin, Stan, Olde, Brent, Wan, Yun and Graesser, Art .  (1998).  Natural language sensing for autonomous agents.  Proc. IEEE Joint Symposia on Intelligence and Systems, Rockville, Maryland, 374-81.

The CMattie team are along with their roles in the project and links to their project related web pages:

Links to other Conscious Software Research Group pages:


This page is continually under construction.
It was created on July 16, 1997.
It was last modified on October 14, 1999.

This page is maintained by Alexei Stoliartchouk. Please email me at stoliara@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu with comments or suggestions.