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A Dialectic Architecture for Computational Autonomy

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Agents and Computational Autonomy (AUTONOMY 2003)

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This paper takes the view that to be considered autonomous, a software agent must possess the means by which to manage its own motivations and so arbitrate between competing internal goals. Using the motivational theories of Abraham Maslow as a starting point, we investigate the role that argumentation processes might play in balancing the many competing aspects of a whole agent’s motivational agenda. This is developed into an Agent Argumentation Architecture (AAA) in which multiple “faculties” argue for different aspects of the total behavior of the Agent. The overall effect of these internal arguments then defines which actions the agent will select for expression, and so define the overt and observable “personality” of the agent.

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  1. Intelligent and Interactive Systems Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2BT, U.K.

    Mark Witkowski

  2. Intelligent Computing Environments, Department of Computing, School of Informatics, City University, London, EC1V 0HB, U.K.

    Kostas Stathis

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  1. University of Bath, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK

    Matthias Nickles

  2. School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, EH8 9LE, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Michael Rovatsos

  3. Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Softwarepark 21, 4232, Hagenberg, Austria

    Gerhard Weiss

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Witkowski, M., Stathis, K. (2004). A Dialectic Architecture for Computational Autonomy. In: Nickles, M., Rovatsos, M., Weiss, G. (eds) Agents and Computational Autonomy. AUTONOMY 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2969. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25928-2_21

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