Ebook: Agents and Computational Autonomy: Potential, Risks, and Solutions

This volume contains the postproceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Autonomy – Potential, Risks, Solutions (AUTONOMY 2003), held at the 2nd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agentSystems(AAMAS2003),July14,2003,Melbourne,Australia.Apart from revised versions of the accepted workshop papers, we have included invited contributions from leading experts in the ?eld. With this, the present volume represents the ?rst comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art of research on autonomy, capturing di?erent theories of autonomy, perspectives on autonomy in di?erent kinds of agent-based systems, and practical approaches to dealing with agent autonomy. Agent orientation refers to a software development perspective that has evolved in the past 25 years in the ?elds of computational agents and multiagent systems. The basic notion underlying this perspective is that of a computational agent, that is, an entity whose behavior deserves to be called ?exible, social, and autonomous. As an autonomous entity, an agent possesses action choice and is at least to some extent capable of deciding and acting under self-control. Through its emphasis on autonomy, agent orientation signi?cantly di?ers from traditional engineering perspectives such as structure orientation or object o- entation. These perspectives are targeted on the development of systems whose behavior is fully determined and controlled by external units (e.g., by a p- grammer at design time and/or a user at run time), and thus inherently fail to capture the notion of autonomy.

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This book originates from the First International Workshop on Computational Autonomy -Potential, Risks, Solutions, AUTONOMY 2003, held in Melbourne, Australia in July 2003 as part of AAMAS 2003. In addition to 7 revised selected workshop papers, the volume editors solicited 14 invited papers by leading researchers in the area.

The workshop papers and the invited papers present a comprehensive and coherent survey of the state of the art of research on autonomy, capturing various theories of autonomy, perspectives on autonomy in different kinds of agent-based systems, and practical approaches to dealing with agent autonomy.

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This book originates from the First International Workshop on Computational Autonomy -Potential, Risks, Solutions, AUTONOMY 2003, held in Melbourne, Australia in July 2003 as part of AAMAS 2003. In addition to 7 revised selected workshop papers, the volume editors solicited 14 invited papers by leading researchers in the area.

The workshop papers and the invited papers present a comprehensive and coherent survey of the state of the art of research on autonomy, capturing various theories of autonomy, perspectives on autonomy in different kinds of agent-based systems, and practical approaches to dealing with agent autonomy.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Agency, Learning and Animal-Based Reinforcement Learning....Pages 1-6
Agent Belief Autonomy in Open Multi-agent Systems....Pages 7-16
Dimensions of Adjustable Autonomy and Mixed-Initiative Interaction....Pages 17-39
Founding Autonomy: The Dialectics Between (Social) Environment and Agent’s Architecture and Powers....Pages 40-54
A Taxonomy of Autonomy in Multiagent Organisation....Pages 55-67
Autonomy and Reasoning for Natural and Artificial Agents....Pages 68-82
Types and Limits of Agent Autonomy....Pages 83-94
Autonomy in Multi-agent Systems: A Classification Attempt....Pages 95-102
Autonomy and Agent Deliberation....Pages 103-113
Requirements for Achieving Software Agents Autonomy and Defining Their Responsibility....Pages 114-127
Agent Design from the Autonomy Perspective....Pages 128-139
From Individual Based Modeling to Autonomy Oriented Computation....Pages 140-150
Toward Quantum Computational Agents....Pages 151-169
Adjustable Autonomy Challenges in Personal Assistant Agents: A Position Paper....Pages 170-186
Autonomy in an Organizational Context....Pages 187-194
Dynamic Imputation of Agent Cognition....Pages 195-208
I am Autonomous, You are Autonomous....Pages 209-226
Agents with Initiative: A Preliminary Report....Pages 227-236
A Teamwork Coordination Strategy Using Hierarchical Role Relationship Matching....Pages 237-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-260
A Dialectic Architecture for Computational Autonomy....Pages -
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