Intelligence by design : principles of modularity and coordination for engineering complex adaptive agents
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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| author | Bryson, Joanna Joy, 1965- |
| author2 | Lynn Andrea Stein. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/82302019-04-09T17:20:22Z Intelligence by design : principles of modularity and coordination for engineering complex adaptive agents Bryson, Joanna Joy, 1965- Lynn Andrea Stein. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-338). All intelligence relies on search - for example, the search for an intelligent agent's next action. Search is only likely to succeed in resource-bounded agents if they have already been biased towards finding the right answer. In artificial agents, the primary source of bias is engineering. This dissertation describes an approach, Behavior-Oriented Design (BOD) for engineering complex agents. A complex agent is one that must arbitrate between potentially conflicting goals or behaviors. Behavior-oriented design builds on work in behavior-based and hybrid architectures for agents, and the object oriented approach to software engineering. The primary contributions of this dissertation are: 1. The BOD architecture: a modular architecture with each module providing specialized representations to facilitate learning. This includes one pre-specified module and representation for action selection or behavior arbitration. The specialized representation underlying BOD action selection is Parallel-rooted, Ordered, Slip-stack Hierarchical (POSH) reactive plans. 2. The BOD development process: an iterative process that alternately scales the agent's capabilities then optimizes the agent for simplicity, exploiting tradeoffs between the component representations. This ongoing process for controlling complexity not only provides bias for the behaving agent, but also facilitates its maintenance and extendibility. (cont.) The secondary contributions of this dissertation include two implementations of POSH action selection, a procedure for identifying useful idioms in agent architectures and using them to distribute knowledge across agent paradigms, several examples of applying BOD idioms to established architectures, an analysis and comparison of the attributes and design trends of a large number of agent architectures, a comparison of biological (particularly mammalian) intelligence to artificial agent architectures, a novel model of primate transitive inference, and many other examples of BOD agents and BOD development. by Joanna Joy Bryson. Sc.D. 2005-08-23T18:28:44Z 2005-08-23T18:28:44Z 2001 2001 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8230 50172578 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 338 p. 27329196 bytes 27328955 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Bryson, Joanna Joy, 1965- Intelligence by design : principles of modularity and coordination for engineering complex adaptive agents |
| title | Intelligence by design : principles of modularity and coordination for engineering complex adaptive agents |
| title_full | Intelligence by design : principles of modularity and coordination for engineering complex adaptive agents |
| title_fullStr | Intelligence by design : principles of modularity and coordination for engineering complex adaptive agents |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intelligence by design : principles of modularity and coordination for engineering complex adaptive agents |
| title_short | Intelligence by design : principles of modularity and coordination for engineering complex adaptive agents |
| title_sort | intelligence by design principles of modularity and coordination for engineering complex adaptive agents |
| topic | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8230 |
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