A Dialectic Architecture for Computational Autonomy

Abstract

Abstract. 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 define new 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 the overt "personality" of the agent.

Arguing Over Motivations Within the V3a-Architecture for Self-Adaptation

“…The contribution of the work is a modular model that allows the facets and the personality of an agent to be specified declaratively, manages potential conflicts and replaces components at runtime, thus avoiding to restart the agent's reasoning process whenever a component joins or leaves the game. Some of the concepts utilized here have been introduced in the AAA model (Witkowski and Stathis, 2004). However, here we provide a formal definition of the argumentation game that the original AAA model abstracted away from.…”

Data Intensive Distributed Computing in Data Aware Self-organizing Networks

“…The topic of self-organization has been intensely studied by various areas of engineering including artificial intelligence, control systems, human orientated systems [33,11,14,34,24] and reconfigurable computing systems [22,29,31,32,21]. Significantly, self-organization has been set as an important requirement for new generation distributed networking infrastructures like wireless sensor networks (WSNs), mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and so on [15,6,12,36,5,25].…”

Concurrency of self-* in autonomic systems

“…Moreover, AC has also been intensely studied by various areas of engineering including artificial intelligence, control systems and human orientated systems [4,[41][42][43]. Autonomic computing has been set as an important requirement for systems devised to work in new generation global networked and distributed environments like wireless networks, P2P networks, Web systems, multi-agent systems, grids, and so on [44][45][46][47][48].…”