{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Affect As Motivation For Cognitive And Conative Processes","authors":[{"name":"William S. Faught","slug":"william-s-faught","given":"William S.","family":"Faught","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Responding to natural language requires performing two major tasks: information processing (cognition), .and decision making (conation) . In order to motivate and best guide an entity performing such complex tasks, motivation must originate in the self-interest of the entity. This motivation guides cognitive and conative processes at the lowest possible level by assigning values (measures of importance) to various process components and using them in making process decisions. Through such a motivational mechanism, every decision taken will be to further the entity's self-interests. We describe a model for such a mechanism and the affect process which embodies self-interests.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/141","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/0141.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/141.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/bibtex/141","volume":{"slug":"1975","title":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1975","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/","year":1975,"location":"Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR","dates":"","editors":"Patrick Winston and Carl Hewitt","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Psychological Aspects Of A.I.","track":"Psychological Aspects Of A.I.","number":141,"pages":{"first":893,"last":899},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}