CNLS '89 Proceedings of the ninth annual international conference of the Center for Nonlinear Studies on Self-organizing, Collective, and Cooperative Phenomena in Natural and Artificial Computing Networks on Emergent computation
Intelligence without representation
Artificial Intelligence
A bottom-up mechanism for behavior selection in an artificial creature
Proceedings of the first international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats
Grounding computational engines
Artificial Intelligence Review - Special issue: grounding representations
Affordances, motivations, and the world graph theory
Adaptive Behavior - Special issue on biologically inspired models of navigation
Planification versus sensory-motor conditioning: what are the issues?
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats 5
Evolutionary neurocontrollers for autonomous mobile robots
Neural Networks - Special issue on neural control and robotics: biology and technology
Infant-like social interactions between a robot and a human caregiver
Adaptive Behavior
How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon
How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon
Robot Shaping: An Experiment in Behavior Engineering
Robot Shaping: An Experiment in Behavior Engineering
Autonomous Robots
Adaptability of Darwinian and Lamarckian Populations toward an Unknown New World
ECAL '99 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Advances in Artificial Life
ECAL '99 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Advances in Artificial Life
Cognitive agents based simulation for decisions regarding human team composition
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
The centrifugal development of artificial agents: a research agenda
Proceedings of the 2007 Summer Computer Simulation Conference
Linking perception and action through motivation and affect
Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
A "Society of Mind" Cognitive Architecture Based on the Principles of Artificial Economics
International Journal of Artificial Life Research
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The grounding issue in AI research is concerned with how best to integrate an artificial creature, such as a robot, with the environment in which it functions. In many investigations these interactions are defined and imposed on the agent by an external source, e.g. the designer of the robot. In the debate on the grounding issue little or no attention has been paid to the motivational aspects of grounding. The subject area of motivation is central to understanding how an organism is capable of autonomous functioning, i.e. deciding what is important to its continued existence and determining the means of achieving the relevant goals. This paper sets out to examine this aspect of the grounding debate and identifies some of the features which characterize authentic motivational structures in animals and discuss the possibility of implementing similar structures in artificial creatures. It will be argued that an appreciation of the interactive nature of motivation may be the key to understanding motivational grounding.