Dynamic imputation of agent cognition

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Van Dyke Parunak, H. and Brueckner, S. A., 2004. Dynamic imputation of agent cognition. In: Nickles, M., Rovatsos, M. and Weiss, G., eds. Agents and Computational Autonomy. , pp. 209-226. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 2969)

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Abstract

People can interact much more readily with a multi-agent system if they can understand it in cognitive terms. Modem work on "BDI agents" emphasizes explicit representation of cognitive attributes in the design and construction of a single agent, but transferring these concepts to a community is not straightforward. In addition, there are single-agent cases in which this approach cannot yield the desired perspicuity, including fine-grained agents without explicit internal representation of cognitive attributes, and agents whose inner structures are not accessible. We draw together two vintage lines of agent be imputed externally to a system irrespective of its internal structure, and the insight from situated automata that dynamical systems offer a well-defined semantics for cognition. We demonstrate this approach in both single agent and multi agent examples.

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