Quantitative Modeling of Complex Environments

Quantitative Modeling of Complex Environments (1994)

by Keith Decker , Victor Lesser

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TITLE	Quantitative Modeling of Complex Environments	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Keith Decker	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science; University of Massachusetts	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Victor Lesser	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science; University of Massachusetts	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	There are many formal approaches to specifying how the mental state of an agent entails the particular actions it will perform. These approaches put the agent at the center of analysis. For some questions and purposes, it is more realistic and convenient for the center of analysis to be the task environment, domain, or society of which agents will be a part. This paper presents such a task environment-oriented modeling framework that can work hand-in-hand with more agent-centered approaches. Our approach features careful attention to the quantitative computational interrelationships between tasks, to what information is available (and when) to update an agent's mental state, and to the general structure of the task environment rather than single-instance examples. A task environment model can be used for both analysis and simulation, it avoids the methodological problems of relying solely on single-instance examples, and provides concrete, meaningful characterizations with which to sta...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1994	user correction - Legacy Corrections
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