Building "Fungus Eaters": Design Principles of Autonomous Agents (1996)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior SAB96 (From Animals to Animats |
| Citations: | 44 - 6 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Pfeifer96building"fungus,
author = {Rolf Pfeifer},
title = {Building "Fungus Eaters": Design Principles of Autonomous Agents},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior SAB96 (From Animals to Animats},
year = {1996},
pages = {3--12},
publisher = {MIT Press}
}
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Abstract
We describe a set of design principles for building "Fungus Eaters". "Fungus Eaters" are complete autonomous systems. The goal is to extract and describe in a compact way a large part of the insights which have been acquired in the animats field. The principles have been developed from a cognitive science perspective. Although they represent only a very modest beginning, they make immediately clear what sort of ideas about intelligence and cognition they endorse. They all contrast sharply with classical thinking. Moreover, they provide powerful heuristics for design. 1 Introduction In their review paper of the first SAB conference in 1990, Jean-Arcady Meyer and Agnès Guillot argue that the animat approach will play an important role in resolving some of the fundamental controversies in the study of intelligence or cognition (Meyer and Guillot, 1991). Four years later, at the third SAB conference, they propose three types of goals for animat research, short term, intermediate term, and ...
