The IsisWorld simulator is available to researchers for building and evaluating problem solving and language learning systems with everyday problems that take place in a kitchen (on a campground? house coming soon!). Some documentation and arguments about theoretical underpinnings aimed toward the metareasoning community are available in this paper:
* [An open source commonsense simulator for AI researchers](http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/simulator_metacog_@ai_2010.pdf). Dustin Smith and Bo Morgan. *Submitted to AAAI-10 Workshop on Metacognition*.
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rotation and translation, w.r.t, velocities
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general module for loading components
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representing spatial relations of containment (in) and surface contact (on)
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allowing objects to be nested
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generative parameter ranges (perhaps a distribution) to accommodate variance
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configuration files?
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replace ralph with nicer-looking model
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obtain copyright information for all models (remove on open source models)
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quick way to author events and state-changes
- perhaps using domain specfic language (or simplified english -- allowing use of OMICS corpus)
- consult with Pinto about 'vision' perceptual slot
- experiment with builtin connection libraries
- multiplayer/agent (use Panda3D libraries along with server)
- way to describe perceptions in abstract domain (current perceptual frame is pretty abstract: it already has objects)
- way to pass references to between mental resources -- so they can be chained and used together
- decentralized detection of whether a critic goes on or off?
- lazy hypothesis generation. This is currently implemented, but was omitted because sometimes the first generated working hypotheses is invalidated by a second example.
- generalize to work with dictionaries (recursive structures)