Research Catalog

Title

Computational theories of interaction and agency / edited by Philip E. Agre and Stanley J. Rosenschein.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Agre, Philip.
• Rosenschein, Stanley J.

Description

vi, 767 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"Over time the field of artificial intelligence has developed an "agent perspective" expanding its focus from thought to action, from search spaces to physical environments, and from problem-solving to long-term activity. Originally published as a special double volume of the journal Artificial Intelligence, this book brings together fundamental work by the top researchers in artificial intelligence, neural networks, computer science, robotics, and cognitive science on the themes of interaction and agency. It identifies recurring themes and outlines a methodology of the concept of "agency." The seventeen contributions cover the construction of principled characterizations of interactions between agents and their environments, as well as the use of these characterizations to guide analysis of existing agents and the synthesis of artificial agents."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Artificial intelligence

Uniform Title

Artificial intelligence (Cambridge, Mass.)

Subject

• Artificial intelligence > Data processing
• Computational complexity

Note

• "Reprinted from Artificial intelligence, volume 72, numbers 1-2 (January 1995) and volume 73, numbers 1-2 (February 1995)"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Computational research on interaction and agency / P.E. Agre -- Sensorimotor transformations in the worlds of frogs and robots / M.A. Arbib and J.-S. Liaw -- Learning to act using real-time dynamic programming / A.G. Barto, S.J. Bradtke, and S.P. Singh -- Learning dynamics: systems identification for perceptually challenged agents / K. Basye, T. Dean, and L.P. Kaelbling -- Dynamical systems perspective on agent-environment interaction / R.D. Beer -- On information invariants in robotics / B.R. Donald -- Stabilization of environments / K.J. Hammond, T.M. Converse, and J.W. Grass -- Architecture for adaptive intelligent systems / B. Hayes-Roth -- Analysis of adaptation and environment / I. Horswill -- Intelligent use of space / D. Kirsh -- Indexical knowledge and robot action-a logical account / Y. Lespérance and H.J. Levesque -- Exploiting patterns of interaction to achieve reactive behavior / D.M. Lyons and A.J. Hendriks -- Situated view of representation and control / S.J. Rosenschein and L.P. Kaelbling -- Use of dynamics in an intelligent controller for a space faring rescue robot / M. Schoppers -- On social laws for artificial agent societies: off-line design / Y. Shohaam and M. Tennenholtz -- Instructions, intentions, and expectations / B. Webber [and others] -- Reinforcement learning of non-markov decision processes / S.D. Whitehead and L.-J. Lin.

ISBN

0262510901 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96006163^

OCLC

34284987

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library