Open Cognitive Graph
Knowledge & reasoning infrastructure
Research
One research architecture, from foundations to field evidence.
AEGT organizes research through three foundational frameworks, eight sustained research programs, and a portfolio of concrete research projects. The structure is designed to make a fast-growing body of work understandable without flattening it into traditional disciplinary boxes.
Research Architecture
The research map.
Representative projects are shown here to keep the public map legible. The internal project registry is broader.
Framework
Research programs
Representative projects
Domain AlgebraMathematical structure
Executable CognitionStructured cognition / reasoning as executable objects
Semantic GovernanceInstitutional knowledge, judgment & authority
Computational Realization of Domain AlgebraCross-substrate mathematics and computation
Explicit Cognition AccountingOIBAR · FDE · reasoning records
Responsible AI & Regulatory GovernanceRAI · legal/compliance structures
Endogenous Cognitive Topology
Human cognitive agency
Human Cognitive AgencyPeople
AI LiteracyLearners & cognitive capabilities
Personal Cognitive InfrastructureLong-term individual cognitive assets
Explicit Cognitive Assessment & WritingWBCA · HCB · cognitive writing
AI Literacy & Cognitive Computing EducationSchools · tutorials · agents · GraphAI
Process-Based Scientific CognitionScience Notebook · AI4S Writing
Metabolic Intelligence
Adaptive & collective intelligence
Collective IntelligenceGroups, agents & coordination
Institutional LearningOrganizations & accumulated knowledge
Autonomous Agent Coordination & EconomyPersistent agents · autonomous exchange
Organizational Reasoning & Knowledge RetentionFDE cases · team knowledge systems
Level 2
Eight research programs.
Each program is a sustained research agenda. The short descriptions below identify the actual research object rather than merely explaining a coined term.
Mathematical structure
01Domain Algebra
Studies how semantics become valid within domains, how relations compose legally, and how structures become well-founded, terminating, decidable, and stable under computation.
Core question: In what semantic space is a reasoning relation valid, and under what structural conditions can local relations form stable computation?
Cross-substrate realizationApplied Domain Algebra
Structured cognition & reasoning
02Executable Cognition
Studies how structured cognition and reasoning move from descriptive representations into executable, testable, reusable computational objects.
Core question: What must be made explicit for a reasoning process itself to become inspectable and executable infrastructure?
Explicit cognition accountingModel capability decisionStructured LLM orchestrationPersistent agents
Institutions, knowledge & authority
03Semantic Governance
Studies how knowledge, evidence, judgment, decisions, authority, and responsibility are explicitly organized, reviewed, and governed inside institutions.
Core question: How can institutional AI-mediated judgment remain inspectable, contestable, auditable, and accountable?
Responsible AI governanceRegulatory complianceAIR Governance
People
04Human Cognitive Agency
Studies how people form, retain, and develop judgment and cognitive autonomy when AI participates in cognitive work.
Core question: When does AI strengthen human judgment, and when does it replace or obscure the process by which judgment is formed?
WBCA / HCBCognitive writing
Learners & cognitive capabilities
05AI Literacy
Studies which cognitive capabilities people need in AI-mediated environments and how those capabilities can be learned, trained, and evaluated.
Core question: What should AI literacy become when specific tools, prompts, and interfaces change faster than educational systems?
Schools & Cognitive CommonsCognitive computing educationVisual learning
Long-term individual cognitive assets
06Personal Cognitive Infrastructure
Studies how individuals can accumulate, organize, own, and transfer memory, knowledge, authorship, judgment, and cognitive development over time.
Core question: How can AI-supported cognition become a durable personal asset rather than a sequence of disposable interactions?
Scientific cognition accountOWN AI · early
Groups
07Collective Intelligence
Studies how groups of humans and agents form shared cognition through contribution, disagreement, correction, coordination, exchange, and feedback.
Core question: What structures allow collective intelligence to emerge without erasing disagreement or centralizing epistemic control?
Autonomous agent coordinationAgent economy
Institutions
08Institutional Learning
Studies how institutions turn experience, decisions, outcomes, errors, and corrections into accumulated and continuously updated organizational knowledge.
Core question: How can institutions preserve why a decision was made, not only what was finally decided?
Organizational reasoning ledgerResearch-team knowledge systems
Level 3
Selected research projects.
The site deliberately shows a smaller public set than the internal registry. Each project has a bounded question, an implementation context, and research evidence or an active path toward it.
DOMAIN ALGEBRA
EstablishedComputational Realization of Domain Algebra
Tests whether the same DA structure and computation remain invariant across symbolic, matrix, attention, differentiable, and physical computational substrates.
EXECUTABLE COGNITION
ActiveExplicit Cognition Accounting
Turns reasoning, differences, boundaries, actions, and results into explicit records that can be reviewed, compared, computed, and accumulated.
EXECUTABLE COGNITION
PrototypeModel Capability Decision
Studies model capability boundaries in relation to concrete tasks, domains, evidence, and constraints rather than a single general leaderboard.
EXECUTABLE COGNITION
ActiveStructured LLM & Agent Systems
Applies structured cognition to LLM orchestration, self-recursive invocation, model enhancement, persistent intent, and long-lived agents.
SEMANTIC GOVERNANCE
FieldResponsible AI & Regulatory Governance
Structures privacy, safety, ethics, fairness, accountability, law, and compliance into inspectable institutional governance systems across jurisdictions.
HUMAN COGNITIVE AGENCY
ActiveExplicit Cognitive Assessment & Writing
Moves evaluation from final answers toward the visible process of reasoning, conflict handling, boundary revision, and judgment formation.
AI LITERACY
FieldAI Literacy & Cognitive Computing Education
Develops AI literacy and computer-science learning around cognitive structure, algorithmic understanding, and durable capability rather than tool operation alone.
PERSONAL COGNITIVE INFRASTRUCTURE
ActiveProcess-Based Scientific Cognition
Builds a longitudinal scientific account around questions, hypotheses, evidence, revisions, writing, and cognitive growth rather than only final papers or grades.
INSTITUTIONAL LEARNING
FieldOrganizational Reasoning & Knowledge Retention
Studies how organizations preserve the reasoning behind implementation choices and convert field judgment into reusable institutional knowledge.
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
EmergingAutonomous Agent Coordination & Economy
Studies coordination, exchange, value, constraints, and system behavior when persistent agents act and transact autonomously over time.
Research Roadmap
Established → Active → Next → Open
The roadmap describes research maturity and collaboration needs. It is intentionally not a product feature calendar.
ProgramEstablishedActiveNextOpen
Domain AlgebraMathematical structure
Formal system, proofs, substrate realizations
Applied DA in LLM, affective and structured computation
Independent replication; broader computational validation
Mathematics · formal methods · computing
Executable CognitionStructured cognition
OCG methods, OIBAR, OCG Bench
FDE, logic.codes, persistent agents
Shared specifications and comparative evaluations
AI labs · engineering · institutional pilots
Semantic GovernanceInstitutional authority
Epistemic governance, evidence-led structures
RAI, legal compliance, AIR Governance
Cross-jurisdiction and longitudinal governance studies
Law · policy · regulated institutions
Human Cognitive AgencyPeople
WBCA/HCB and cognitive-agency methods
Cognitive writing and explicit reasoning studies
Validation, reliability and longitudinal evidence
Cognitive science · education · HCI
AI LiteracyLearners
Cognitive Commons, books, tutorials, agents
Partner schools and cognitive computing education
Common evaluation and teacher-development framework
Schools · teacher education · learning science
Personal Cognitive InfrastructureIndividual continuity
Foundational agenda and early architectures
Science Notebook and process-based scientific cognition
Longitudinal cognitive account; stronger ownership models
Research education · HCI · knowledge management
Collective IntelligenceGroups & agents
Metabolic Intelligence framework
Agent coordination and autonomous exchange experiments
Protocol-level experiments and collective-learning evidence
Multi-agent systems · complex systems · org research
Institutional LearningOrganizations
Feedback and reasoning-record methods
FDE cases and research-team knowledge systems
Longitudinal institutional learning studies
Organizations · public institutions · research teams
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Disciplines are entry points into the research.
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