The Dynamics of Action Selection

Maes, Pattie

The Dynamics of Action Selection

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Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Planning, Scheduling, Reasoning About Actions. Pages 991-996.

Abstract

The paper addresses the problem of action selection for an autonomous agent. An autonomous agent is viewed as a collection of "competence modules". The hypothesis that is put forward is that rational action selection can be modeled as an emergent property of an activation/inhibition dynamics among these modules. Results of a computer simulation are discussed and a first step towards a qualitative theory is presented. The advantages and disadvantages of this nonhierarchical, distributed form of control of action over the classical, programmed, centralized method are studied.

Pattie Maes. 1989. The Dynamics of Action Selection. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-89. IJCAI, 991–996. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/159

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