Library Course Assessment for
CMPT 418
Computational Cognitive Architecture
November 2003
Introduction
Here is the Library's assessment for CMPT 418 Computational Cognitive Architecture.
This course has been offered twice as a special topics course in Artificial Intelligence. It will be an elective for CS majors, as well as for Cognitive Science and Philosophy majors. It will first be offered in 2005-3 and bi-annually thereafter with an expected enrolment of 25-30 students.
Monographs
Using Library of Congress subject headings, we compared our holdings to our benchmark libraries (University of York, University of Victoria, University of Waterloo and the University of Guelph). Holdings for the University of Waterloo and the University of Guelph are combined with the Wilfrid Laurier University and cannot be separated out. For comparative purposes, here are the most recent (1999/00) total volume holdings for the benchmark libraries:
Simon Fraser University - 1.432 million volumes
University of Victoria - 1.768 million volumes (1.23 times the size of SFU's collection)
York University - 2.359 million volumes (1.65 times the size of SFU)
Waterloo, Guelph and Laurier - 5.298 million volumes (3.70 times the size of SFU's collection)
These are holdings for the general subject headings and do not necessarily reflect all of the subheadings for each topic.
|
Subject Heading |
Associated subject headings at SFU |
Titles at SFU |
Titles at UVic |
Titles at York |
Titles at Waterloo, Guelph and Laurier |
|
Artificial intelligence |
23 |
728 |
274 |
631 |
1855 |
|
Cognition |
18 |
617 |
413 |
820 |
1528 |
|
Cognitive neuroscience |
1 |
64 |
35 |
80 |
87 |
|
Cognitive science |
5 |
141 |
70 |
147 |
212 |
|
Computational neuroscience |
14 |
7 |
14 |
17 |
|
|
Computer architecture |
9 |
315 |
136 |
197 |
567 |
|
Connectionism |
32 |
18 |
35 |
52 |
|
|
Mental representation |
47 |
27 |
50 |
72 |
|
|
Natural language processing (computer science) |
88 |
21 |
69 |
199 |
|
|
Models, neurological |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
Neural networks (computer science) |
2 |
361 |
81 |
201 |
524 |
|
Neural networks (neurobiology) |
1 |
39 |
17 |
36 |
48 |
|
Totals |
59 |
2447 |
1100 |
2280 |
5163 |
Given the overall size of SFU’s collection relative to these benchmark libraries, our holdings are comparable or adequate for all headings. The Library has adequate monographs to support this course.
Serials
The Library provides access to the following journals that will support the research of students in this course, either by current subscription or via full-text in aggregated databases:
Applied intelligenceCognitive science
Computational intelligence
Connection science
IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation
IEEE transactions on neural networks
International journal of neural systems
Journal of computational neuroscience
Natural computing
Network: computation in neural systems
Neural computation
Neural computing and applications
Neural networks
Neural processing letters
Mind and language
Minds and machines
Trends in cognitive sciences
The Library has adequate serial holdings to support this course.
Bibliographic Tools
The Library has a current license for, or provides access to, several databases that could be used by for finding research material for this course such as CogPrints, ACM Digital Library and INSPEC, as well as more general indexes such as Web of Science.
If the Department has a list of useful web pages that could be incorporated into a library research guide for the course, they could be sent to Gordon Coleman, gcoleman@sfu.ca.
Costs: There are no library costs associated with this course.
Note: The materials required for this course are located in the WAC Bennett Library on the Burnaby campus. This assessment is based on the assumption that the course will be offered at SFU’s Burnaby campus. If the course were to be offered at SFU Surrey or Harbour Center, or as an off-campus course, additional Library costs would be incurred.