Building on more than a century of research on human memory and performance, the Predictive Performance Optimizer (PPO) is a state-of-the-art cognitive tool to help decision-makers, instructors, and learners of all types to assess current performance and predict future performance by capturing the dynamics of human learning with basic cognitive science principles. The PPO is a user-friendly software tool that can track performance over the course of a learner's training ...
The development of large-scale cognitive models introduces significant computational challenges. Large declarative memories are a case in point. It is not computationally feasible to load a large declarative memory into the process space available for execution of a cognitive model. Fortunately, computer science provides us with relational databases to support access to large external stores of information from within an executing process. This paper motivates and describes the interfacing of ...