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The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Luc Steels

    1. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Brussels, Belgium

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Part of the book series: NATO ASI Subseries F: (NATO ASI F, volume 144)

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Lectures

    1. The Biology of Behavior — Criteria for Success in Animals and Robots

      • David McFarland
      Pages 1-20

    2. On Quantitative Performance Measures of Robot Behaviour

      • Tim Smithers
      Pages 21-52

    3. Robot Adaptivity

      • Carme Torras
      Pages 53-71

    4. Intelligence — Dynamics and Representations

      • Luc Steels
      Pages 72-89

    5. An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

      • Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Michael L. Littman, Andrew W. Moore
      Pages 90-127

    6. Cognition — Perspectives from Autonomous Agents

      • Rolf Pfeifer
      Pages 128-164

    7. Lifelong Robot Learning

      • Sebastian Thrun, Tom M. Mitchell
      Pages 165-196

    8. Cognitive Architectures — From Knowledge Level To Structural Coupling

      • Walter Van de Velde
      Pages 197-221

  3. Research Papers

    1. Circle In The Round: State Space Attractors for Evolved Sighted Robots

      • Philip Husbands, Inman Harvey, Dave Cliff
      Pages 222-257

    2. Animal and Robot Navigation

      • Ulrich Nehmzow
      Pages 258-274

    3. From Local Interactions to Collective Intelligence

      • Maja J. Matarić
      Pages 275-295

    4. The Mobile Robot of MAIA: Actions and Interactions in a Real Life Scenario

      • Giulio Antoniol, Bruno Caprile, Alessandro Cimatti, Roberto Fiutem
      Pages 296-311

    5. Of Elephants and Men

      • Johan M. Lammens, Henry H. Hexmoor, Stuart C. Shapiro
      Pages 312-344

    6. How Do You Choose Your Agents? How Do You Distribute Your Processes?

      • Miles Pebody
      Pages 345-364

    7. The Reactive Accompanist: Adaptation and Behavior Decomposition in a Music System

      • Joanna Bryson
      Pages 365-376

    8. Behavior-Based Architecture with Distributed Selection

      • Luís Correia, A. Steiger-Garção
      Pages 377-389

    9. Reporting Experiments on Integration of Learning Algorithms and Reactive Behaviour-Oriented Control Systems on a Real Mobile Robot

      • Filip Vertommen
      Pages 390-414

    10. Distributed Reinforcement Learning

      • Gerhard Weiß
      Pages 415-428
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About this book

The NATO sponsored Advanced Study Institute 'The Biology and Tech­ nology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents' was an extraordinary event. For two weeks it brought together the leading proponents of the new behavior­ oriented approach to Artificial Intelligence in Castel Ivano near Trento. The goal of the meeting was to establish a solid scientific and technological foun­ dation for the field of intelligent autonomous agents with a bias towards the new methodologies and techniques that have recently been developed in Ar­ tificial Intelligence under the strong influence of biology. Major themes of the conference were: bottom-up AI research, artificial life, neural networks and techniques of emergent functionality. The meeting was such an extraordinary event because it not only featured very high quality lectures on autonomous agents and the various fields feeding it, but also robot laboratories which were set up by the MIT AI laboratory (with a lab led by Rodney Brooks) and the VUB AI laboratory (with labs led by Tim Smithers and Luc Steels). This way the participants could also gain practical experience and discuss in concreto what the difficulties and achievements were of different approaches. In fact, the meeting has been such a success that a follow up meeting is planned for September 1995 in Monte Verita (Switzerland). This meeting is organised by Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Brussels, Belgium

    Luc Steels

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents

  • Editors: Luc Steels

  • Series Title: NATO ASI Subseries F:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79629-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-79631-9Published: 27 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-79629-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0258-1248

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 517

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Health Informatics, Computer Appl. in Life Sciences

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