Course convernor: Prof. Peter Cheng

     Email: p.c.h.cheng(at)sussex.ac.uk            Room: Chi1 101            Ext. 2652

Course guides and materials


Course outline (pdf) — Aims, themes, assessments, course texts.
Schedule (pdf) — Dates and topics of seminars and practical classes - 2 pages
Practical class (pdf) — Week by week instructions
Report writing guidelines (pdf) – Course work report requirements
Sort Task Cards (pdf) – Print and cut out the cards
Choose a task to model (pdf) – List of example task you may choose to model

Course texts online – See Course outline for details


  • Cognitive Science: An Introduction – CSI
  • Foundations of Cognitive science – FCS
You may need to login with your ITS username and password. (Not working? Follow instructions in the Course outline.)

Modelling Seminar and Practical Class Notes


CogModNotes1 (pdf)
CogModNotes2 (pdf)
CogModNotes3 (pdf)
CogModNotes4 (pdf)
CogModNotes5 (pdf)
CLIPS modelling Guide Parts1-5 (pdf)

CLIPS Models


Subtraction1.txt - For all models set mea strategy: enter "(set-strategy mea)" in the dialog window.
AddModel1.txt
AddModel1+retract.txt
AddModel2.txt
Variables-wildcards.txt
AddModel3.txt
Subtraction1-NeverCarry.txt
Subtraction1-AlwaysCarry.txt
Subtraction2-Patterns.txt
Subtraction2-ErrorPattern.txt
Subtraction1-100.txt
Multifield-Examples.txt
ReverseList.txt
SortLetters.txt
CardSortA.txt
CardSortB.txt
CardSortC.txt
CardSortD.txt

CLIPS modelling environment


This is available on Informatics Department Computers.
Copies of the software can be obtained for your own computer from the follow site:
      http://clipsrules.sourceforge.net/
      Choose download clips > click 6.24 (to expand list)
      If using a mac-osx choose mac_osx_executables–624.zip
      If using a PS choose windows_executables_624.zip
      Unzip it (by double clicking, if not automatic), put the new folder where you want, launch CLIPS by clicking on the CLIPS icon.




Peter Cheng
7/1/09 (6/1/05)