Annotated Production Systems: A Model for Skill Acquisition

Abstract

Annotated Production Systems provide a procedural model for skill acquisition by augmenting a production model of the skill with formal commentary describing plans, bugs, and interrelationships among varioue production&. This commentary supports efficient interpretation, self -debugging and self -improvement. The theory of annotated productions i1 developed by analyzing the skill of att i tude instrument flying. An annotated production interpreter has been written that executes skill models which control a flight simulator. Preliminary evidence indicates that annotated productions effectively model certain bugs and certain learning behaviors characteristic of student. This research was supported in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense under Office of Naval Research contract NOOOl~-75-C-06~3, and in part by the Naval Training E:quipment Center under contract N61339-76-C-0046.