I would like to indicate a web resource promoting the advancement of artificial intelligence and of excellence in artificial intelligence education, http://www.phoster.com/ . The indicated resource is, at once, of use to interdisciplinary research, including cognitive science and artificial intelligence research. The table of contents of the website is available at http://www.phoster.com/contents/ . The articles in the simulation category are available at http://www.phoster.com/category/simulation/ .

Our current and upcoming research topics include artificial mental simulation en route to artificial imagination. Artificial mental simulation and artificial imagination are biologically-inspired, cognition-based, engineering approaches to computational modeling and simulation systems and to computer- automated design and engineering systems. The research advances artificial intelligence while simultaneously advancing computer simulation.

Artificial mental simulation research topics include the comprehension of domain-independent scientific simulations for dialogue systems to answer questions about or to explain the contents of simulations.

Artificial mental simulation research topics include the understanding and generation of natural language, of descriptive, explanatory, narrative rhetoric, and of stories as well as the processes of their transduction to and from working memory content. Semiotic reasoning and interpretation broaden the capabilities of forthcoming intelligent tutoring systems for literature.

Computer vision and computer perception topics are proximate to those of artificial mental simulation as each is interested with modeling the working memory that sensors provide information into and that sensory processing interacts with. Models of working memory include the storage of 3D reconstructions of environments, representations of environments, for recognition, processing and comprehension.

Artificial mental simulation research includes the comprehensive modeling of concepts with facets including visuospatial or computational geometric. Artificial mental simulation and artificial imagination research topics include the bidirectional connections between concepts, forms and functions as well as the procedural cognitive processes of mental design, mechanistic reasoning and engineering, including the cognitive processes pertaining to the formulation of, the retrieval, reuse, revision and retention of, as well as the blending of design spaces.

Artificial intelligence-based modeling and simulation advance natural language understanding, inferencing, situation modeling, sensemaking, situational awareness, narrative comprehension, story visualization, natural language generation, computer-aided and computer-automated storytelling, scientific visualization, natural language explanations of scientific simulations, instructional design, serious games, on-the-fly instructional simulation content generation, multimedia communication, multimedia dialogue systems and intelligent tutoring systems.

The advancement of artificial intelligence-based modeling and simulation advance the tools of design, engineering and manufacturing, the tools of industry, business intelligence and economics, the tools of the sciences and of education. The imagination has long fascinated cognitive science and research into artificial imagination can provide new scientific understanding of the mind as well as new technologies.

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