Metacognitive Adaptation: Regulating the Plan Transformation Process
Ruediger Oehlmann · 2001
Recent research in case-based reasoning suggests the use of metacognitive approaches to control the reasoning process. Whereas most of this research focuses on issues related to retrieval and representation, we describe a metacognitive approach to case adaptation based on the generation of questions and answers. The answer generation utilizes particular planning knowledge in the form of introspection plans and adaptation plans. An example of our implementation, IULIAN, will illustrate this process. Metacognition and Adaptation Recent results in case-based reasoning have addressed the control of the reasoning process using ideas from metacognition. The term metacognition describes the "active monitoring and consequent regulation" of the agent's own cognitive processes (Flavell 1976). As a result, we can regard the term metacognition as describing two distinct but related issues: the issue of knowledge about cognition and the issue of regulating cognition. The first term includes awaren...