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title: "Modular self-organization for a long-living autonomous agent"
authors:
  - "Bruno Scherrer"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/229"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/0229.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2003
pages: "1440-1441"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Modular self-organization for a long-living autonomous agent

Bruno Scherrer

*Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1440-1441.

## Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide a sound framework for addressing a difficult problem: the automatic construction of an autonomous agent's modular architecture. We briefly present two apparently uncorrelated frameworks: Autonomous planning through Markov Decision Processes and Kernel Clustering. Our fundamental idea is that the former addresses autonomy whereas the latter allows to tackle self-organizing issues. Relying on both frameworks, we show that modular selforganization can be formalized as a clustering problem in the space of MDPs . We derive a modular self-organizing algorithm in which an autonomous agent learns to efficiently spread n planning problems over m initially blank modules with m < n.