{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Reflection and Action Under Scarce Resources: Theoretical Principles and Empirical Study","authors":[{"name":"Eric Horvitz","slug":"eric-horvitz","given":"Eric","family":"Horvitz","affiliation":""},{"name":"Gregory F. Cooper","slug":"gregory-f-cooper","given":"Gregory F.","family":"Cooper","affiliation":""},{"name":"David Heckerman","slug":"david-heckerman","given":"David","family":"Heckerman","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"We define and exercise the expected value of computation as a fundamental component of reflection about alternative inference strategies. We present a portion of Protos research focused on the interlacing of reflection and action under scarce resources, and discuss how the techniques have been applied in a high-stakes medical domain. The work centers on endowing a computational agent with the ability to harness incomplete characterizations of problemsolving performance to control the amount of effort applied to a problem or subproblem, before taking action in the world or turning to another problem . We explore the use of the techniques in controlling decision-theoretic inference itself, and pose the approach as a model of rationality under scarce resources.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/180","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/0180.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/180.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1989/bibtex/180","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":"Commonsense Reasoning","track":"Commonsense Reasoning","number":180,"pages":{"first":1121,"last":1126},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}