{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"The Dynamics of Action Selection","authors":[{"name":"Pattie Maes","slug":"pattie-maes","given":"Pattie","family":"Maes","affiliation":""}],"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.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/159","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/0159.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/159.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/bibtex/159","volume":{"slug":"1989","title":"Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1989","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/","year":1989,"location":"Detroit, Michigan, USA","dates":"August 20-25 1989","editors":"N. S. Sridharan","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Planning, Scheduling, Reasoning About Actions","track":"Planning, Scheduling, Reasoning About Actions","number":159,"pages":{"first":991,"last":996},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}