Emperical Modelling + BCM

["David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

FYI -

 http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/colour_sudoku_puzzle/ 

BCM templates definately can exploit these techniques!

This was th key challenge in the airport gate scheduling system I wrote years again out in Saudi - same need - human operators able to assimulate complex patterns and ideas simply...

DW

Colour Sudoku Puzzle Demonstrates New Vision for Computing
University of Warwick (12/18/07) 

University of Warwick Department of Computer Science researchers have developed a color-based Sudoku Puzzle that helps Sudoku players solve Sudoku puzzles, but also demonstrates the possibilities contained in a radical new computing technique. The color in the puzzle helps players determine what numbers they can fit in each slot, but for doctoral researcher Antony Harfield, the technique is his way of exploring how logic and perception interact using a radical approach to computing called empirical modeling. Empirical modeling can be used to solve other creative problems, and Harfield is exploring how it can be used in educational technology and learning. The relationship between logic and perception, particularly in regards to interactions between computers and humans, is considered key to developing better software, especially in artificial intelligence, computer graphics, and education technology. "Traditional computer programs are best-suited for tasks that are so well-understood they can, without much loss, be expressed in a closed, mechanical form in which all interactions or changes are 'pre-planned,'" says Dr. Steve Russ of the empirical modeling group at the University of Warwick. "Even in something so simple as a Sudoku puzzle humans use a mixture of perception, expectation, experience and logic that is just incompatible with the way a computer program would typically solve the puzzle. For safety-critical systems [such as railway management] it is literally a matter of life and death that we learn to use computers in ways that integrate smoothly with human perception, communication and action. This is our goal with empirical modeling."
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