publications
Publications
2015
Upal, M. A. & Gibon, S. Agent-based simulation of social identity dynamics, in Proceedings of the Spring Simulation Symposium, pages 185-192.
Upal, M. A. Why Stickiness is not Enough to Explain Persistence of Counterintuitive Religious Concepts, in Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Conference.
Upal, M. A. Alternative Narratives for Preventing the Radicalization of Muslim Youth, Journal of Deradicalization, 15(2), 138-162.
Upal, M. A. Countering Islamic Jihadist Movements, Journal of Terrorism Research, 6(2), 57-69.
Upal, M. A. Using Social Psychology to Counter Terrorism, Cicero Magazine.
Upal, M. A. Why Moderate Muslims Balk at 'Je Suis Charlie,' Jihad Watch.
2014
Riordan, B., Wade, H. & Upal, M. A. Detecting sociostructural beliefs about group status differences in online discussions, in Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics Workshop on latent attribute prediction in social media.
Norton, S. & Upal, M. A. Narratives, Identity, and terrorism, in Bramadat, P. & Dawson, L. (eds) Religious Radicalization & Beyond,Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pages 285-300.
Upal, M. A. Strong flying women and weak invisible men: How people make superhuman concepts coherent, in Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Upal, M. A. A Cognitive Framework for counterintuitive story understanding, M. Finlayson, C. Meister & e. Bruneau (editors) Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Computational Modeling of Narratives, pages 224-242, Berlin: Schloss Dagstuhl.
2013
Harmon-Vukic, M., Upal, M. A., & Trainor, C. Understanding the role of context in memory for maximally counterintuitive concepts, in Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2012
Nielbo, K., Braxton, D., & Upal, M. A. Computing Religion: A new tool in the multilevel analysis of religion, Journal of Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 24(3).
Harmon-Vukic, M. & Upal, M. A. Understanding the Memory Advantage of Counterintuitive Concepts, Journal of Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2.
2011
Upal, M. A. From Individual to Social Counterintuitiveness: How layers of innovation weave together to form tapestries of human cultures, Mind and Society, 10(1), 79-96.
Upal, M. A. Memory, Mystery and Coherence: Does the presence of 2-3 counterintuitive concepts predict cultural success of a narrative? Journal of Cognition and Culture, 11(1-2), 23-48.
Harmon-Vukic, M. & Upal, M. A. The Role of Mental Elaborations in Making Counterintuitive Ideas Memorable, , in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society.
Upal, M. A. Ratcheting-up of Counterintuitiveness in Rumors and NRM Doctrine, in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society.
Upal, M. A. Automated Extraction of Weighted Semantic Maps to Study Cultural Differences, in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society.
2010
Upal, M. A. An Alternative View of the Minimal Counterintuitiveness Effect, Journal of Cognitive Systems Research, 11(2), 194-203.
Upal, M. A. Finding the Sweet Spot: Is there a fixed MCI-template for culturally successful folktales, in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 2733-2738, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Upal, M. A. On attractiveness of surprising ideas: how memorability of culturally counterintuitive ideas drives cultural dynamics, in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 742-747, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
M. A. Upal & M. Harmon-Vukic (2010) Influence of Integration and Counterintuitiveness on Memory for Text, in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society, page 2417, Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.
M. A. Upal To Be Subtle or To Be Clear?: Comparing Strategies for Changing People’s Attitudes Towards Social Groups, in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society, page 2406, Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.
M. A. Upal Explaining the Minimal Counterintuitiveness Effect Without Assuming A Strongly Modular Mind,. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society, page 2411, Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum
2009
Upal, M. A. Predictive Models of Cultural Transmission, in Trajkovski & Collins (Ed) Agent-Based Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions, IGA Press.
2008
Upal, M. A. Artificial Intelligence and Religion, Journal of Cognitive Systems Research, 9(3), 232-235.
2007
M. A. Upal, L. Gonce, R. Tweney, and J. Slone, Contextualizing counterintuitiveness: How context affects comprehension and memorability of counterintuitive concepts, Cognitive Science, 31(3), 415-439.
D. J. Slone, L. Gonce, M. A. Upal, K. Edwards, R. Tweney, Imagery effects on recall of minimally counterintuitive concepts, Cognition and Culture , 7(3-4), 355-367.
M. A. Upal & R. Warren (2007) Simulating the Emergence of Complex Cultural Beliefs, in Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Agent-based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems, Berlin: Springer Verlag.
M. A. Upal, R. Warren & G. Alekke (2007) Towards A Knowledge-rich Agent-based Social Simulation in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics , D. Nau & J. Wilkenfeld (Editors), pages 87-96, Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press (ISBN: 978-1-57735-342).
M. A. Upal & R. Sama (2007) Effect of Communication on Belief Dynamics in Multi-Agent Systems, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), pages 151 - 156. Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis/Psychology Press.
M. A. Upal, Report on the Cognition & Culture Workshop, in Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 57-58, Lawrence Erlbaum Press.
M. A. Upal, The Optimal Cognitive Template of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives, in Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 1575-1579, Lawrence Erlbaum Press.
M. A. Upal, What is More Memorable Counterintuitive Concepts Interpreted Metaphorically or Literally?, in Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 1581-1586, Lawrence Erlbaum Press.
M. A. Upal, The Structure of False Social Beliefs, in Proceedings of the First IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, pages 282-286, IEEE Press (ISBN: 1-4244-0701-X).
2006
R. Tweney, M. A. Upal, L. Gonce, D. J. Slone, K. Edwards. The Creative Structuring of Counterintuitive Worlds, Cognition and Culture , 6 (3-4), 483-498.
M. A. Upal & R. Sun (editors) Cognitive Modeling and Agent-based Social Simulation: Papers from the AAAI-06 Workshop (ISBN 978-1-57735-284-6), Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 2006.
L. Gonce, M. A. Upal, D. J. Slone, R. D. Tweney. (2006) Role of Context in the Recall of Counterintuitive Concepts, Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6 (3-4), 521-547.
M. A. Upal, From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Culture, page 1-5 in M. A. Upal & R. Sun (editors) Cognitive Modeling and Agent-based Social Simulation: Papers from the AAAI-06 Workshop (ISBN 978-1-57735-284-6), Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 2006.
R. Alexander, M. A. Upal, Fashion as Collective Behavior, in Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Social & Organizational Sciences.
A. Dakkak, M. Jackson, M. A. Upal, Social Simulation of Knowledge Sharing and Reputation, in Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Social & Organizational Social Sciences.
W. Achtner,...A. Upal, J. Williams, S. Young, D. Zelenko, Reports on the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshops, 92-102, AI Magazine, 27(4).
2005
M. A. Upal, and S. Rogers, Learning to improve reasoning, Computatitonal Intelligence, 21(4), 333-335, 2005.
M. A. Upal & R. Erfani, Cognitive Capacity and Ideological Group Formation, in Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Social & Organizational Sciences.
M. A. Upal. Simulating the Emergence of New Religious Movements, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 8(1): 2005.
M. A. Upal. Towards A Cognitive Science of New Religious Movements, Journal of Cognition and Culture, 5(2), 214-239: 2005.
M. A. Upal & R. Erfani, Emergence of Ideological Groups, in Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Social & Organizational Sciences.
M. A. Upal, Role of Context in Memorability of Intuitive and Counterintuitive Concepts, in Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 2224-2229, Lawrence Earlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, 2005.
M. A. Upal. Learning to improve plan quality, 21(4) Computational Intelligence, pages 440-461, 2005.
A. Marco, M. A. Upal, B. K. Chesney, Game Theory and the Operating Room Staff: Cooperation in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game, in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists
M. A. Upal, A Myth Understanding System, in Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, page 2567, Lawrence Earlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, 2005.
M. A. Upal, Towards a computational science of culture, in Proceedings of the27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, page 2568, Lawrence Earlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, 2005.
2004
M. A. Upal. A Computational Model for Learning Counterintuitive Concepts in Proceedings of International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 2004.
M. A. Upal. Learning General Graphplan Memos, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004.
2003
M. A. Upal. What-if Planning for Military Logistics, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent System Design & Applications, pages 149-158, Springer Verlag, New York, 2003.
M. A. Upal. Performance Evaluation Metrics for Link Discovery Systems in Proceedings of the Third International Intelligent System Design & Applications, pages 273-282, Springer Verlag, New York, 2003.
M. A. Upal & F. Fung. Dynamic Plan Evaluation for Military Logistics in Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Soft Computing, pages 87-92, ACTA Press, Calgary, 2003.
M. A. Upal. Sexual Selection of Co-operation, in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), pages 98-109, Springer Verlag, New York, 2003.
M. A. Upal. Learning Graphplan Memos through Static Domain Analysis in Proceedings of the Sixteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, New York, 2003.
2002
M. A. Upal, Sexual Selction of Co-operation, in Notes of the 2nd International Lake Arrowhead Conference on Computational Social Sciences, 2002.
M. A. Upal & Robert C. Schrag, Ultra*Log Final Report, Information Extraction and Transport (IET) Inc.
M. A. Upal, Link Discovery Scoring, Information Extraction and Transport (IET) Inc.
2001
M. A. Upal. Learning plan rewrite rules using static domain analysis, in Proceedings of the Fourteenth International FLAIRS Conference, pages 412-417, AAAI Press, Menlo Park CA, 2001.
J. MacInnes, O. Banyasad, and M. A. Upal. Watching you watching me: opponent modeling using FSMs, in Proceedings of Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 361-364, Springer Verlag, New York, 2001.
2000
M. A. Upal. Learning from others to improve planning performance, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, pages 227-233, ACTA Press, Calgary, 2000.
M. A. Upal & R. Elio. Learning search control rules versus rewrite rules to improve plan quality, in Proceedings of the Thirteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 240-253, Springer Verlag, New York, 2000.
1999
M. A. Upal, Machine Learning to Improve Quality of Plans Produced by Partial-order Planners, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, ISBN:0-612-59687-7
M. A. Upal. Learning rewrite rules to improve plan quality, in Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, page 984, AAAI Press, Menlo Park CA, 1999.
M. A. Upal. Using mixed-initiative setting to improve planning performance, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Systems, pages 78-82, ISCA Press, Cary, NC, 1999.
M. A. Upal & R. Elio. Learning rationales to generate high quality plans, in Proceedings of the Twelfth International FLAIRS Conference, pages 371-377, AAAI Press, Menlo Park CA, 1999.
M. A. Upal & S. Padmanabhuni. Using functional representation to learn how to program, in Proceedings of the Twelfth IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pages 1052-1056, IEEE Press, Ottawa, 1999.
1998
M. A. Upal. Learning only good things from others, in Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, page 1273, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, 1998.
M. A. Upal & R. Elio. Learning to improve quality of the solutions produced by partial-order planners, in Proceedings of the AIPS-98 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition for Planning: Bridging Theory and Practice, pages 94-104, 1998.
1997
M. A. Upal, Variability bias for learning multiple concepts.
M. A. Upal, Apprenticeship: a metaphor for human skill acquisition.
1996
M. A. Upal & E. Neufeld. Comparison of unsupervised classifiers in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information, Statistics and Induction in Science (ISIS), pages 342-353, World Scientific, River Edge, NJ, 1996.
1995
M. A. Upal, A Monte Carlo Comparison of Non-hierarchical Unsupervised Classifiers, Masters Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan.
1994
M. A. Upal and E. Neufeld, A comparison of Bayesian and neural net unsupervised classifiers, in Notes of Annual Graduate Symposium on Computational Science.
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