Agent-Based Software Development
Agent-Based Software Development
What Is Thought?
Weakening conflicting information for iterated revision and knowledge integration
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on logical formalizations and commonsense reasoning
Thinking about Android Epistemology (AAAI Press Copublications)
Thinking about Android Epistemology (AAAI Press Copublications)
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Bradford Books)
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Bradford Books)
Artificial Intelligence
Representation = Grounded Information
PRICAI '08 Proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Trends in Artificial Intelligence
Reasoning about categories in conceptual spaces
IJCAI'01 Proceedings of the 17th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Intelligence Dynamics: a concept and preliminary experiments for open-ended learning agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems
An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems
Attention in the ASMO Cognitive Architecture
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2010: Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the BICA Society
ICSR'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Social Robotics
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This paper uses robot experience to explore key concepts of autonomy, life and being. Unfortunately, there are no widely accepted definitions of autonomy, life or being. Using a new cognitive agent architecture we argue that autonomy is a key ingredient for both life and being, and set about exploring autonomy as a concept and a capability. Some schools of thought regard autonomy as the key characteristic that distinguishes a system from an agent; agents are systems with autonomy, but rarely is a definition of autonomy provided. Living entities are autonomous systems, and autonomy is vital to life. Intelligence presupposes autonomy too; what would it mean for a system to be intelligent but not exhibit any form of genuine autonomy. Our philosophical, scientific and legal understanding of autonomy and its implications is immature and as a result progress towards designing, building, managing, exploiting and regulating autonomous systems is retarded. In response we put forward a framework for exploring autonomy as a concept and capability based on a new cognitive architecture. Using this architecture tools and benchmarks can be developed to analyze and study autonomy in its own right as a means to further our understanding of autonomous systems, life and being. This endeavor would lead to important practical benefits for autonomous systems design and help determine the legal status of autonomous systems. It is only with a new enabling understanding of autonomy that the dream of Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life can be realized. We argue that designing systems with genuine autonomy capabilities can be achieved by focusing on agent experiences of being rather than attempting to encode human experiences as symbolic knowledge and know-how in the artificial agents we build.