This paper is primarily concerned with answering two questions: What are necessary
elements of embodied architectures? How are we to proceed in a science of embodied …

The adaptive value of emotions in nature indicates that they might also be useful in artificial
creatures. Experiments were carried out to investigate this hypothesis in a simulated …

The design-based approach is a methodology for investigating mechanisms capable of
generating mental phenomena, whether introspectively or externally observed, and whether …

The fact that emotions are considered to be essential to human reasoning suggests that they
might play an important role in autonomous robots as well. In particular, the decision of …

This thesis presents a study of the provision of emotions for artificial agents with the ultimate
aim of enhancing their autonomy, ie making them more exible, robust and self-sufficient. In …

The emotions are investigated from the perspective of an Arti cial Intelligence engineer
attempting to understand the requirements and design options for autonomous resource …

This paper presents the structure and operation principles of an emotional model. It is a
dynamic state-space model where state variables represent the emotional state. Model …

Many who give definitions of AI offer narrow views based either on their own work area or
the pronouncement of an AI guru about the scope of AI. Looking at the range of research in …

What is the relation between intelligence and computation? Although the difficulty of defining
'intelligence'is widely recognized, many are unaware that it is hard to give a satisfactory …

Autonomy is a very important property for a robot to have, yet implementing it in a robot is far
f~ om trivial, particularly when one requires the meaning of autonomy to include self …