Dear Colleagues,
I like to announce a Mini-Workshop on
"SOCIALLY SITUATED AGENTS"
2-5pm, Monday 1st of March, room 167 Cybernetics Department.
Guest speaker will be Prof. Stan Franklin (author of "Artificial Minds",
see http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~franklin/), see title and abstract of his
presentation below. His talk will be followed by a few short presentations,
see names and titles below. If you are interested to participate, please
contact me.
yours sincerely, Kerstin Dautenhahn
Short Presentations:
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Rak Patel (Reading)
"Cooperative Agents in the Control Room"
Tom Quick (UCL)
"Abstracting embodiment: Structural coupling between ontologically distinct
domains"
Chrystopher Nehaniv (Univ. Hertfordshire)
"Meaning for Observers and Agents"
Keynote Talk
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"Conscious" Agents: Imitating Minds in Software
Stan Franklin
Institute for Intelligent Systems
The University of Memphis
Baars’ global workspace theory (1988, 1997) provides a functional
psychological model of human consciousness and cognition. "Conscious" software
agents are intelligent autonomous agents that implement and flesh out that
theory, specifying mechanisms for the various functions. Such "conscious"
agents can provide hypotheses to cognitive scientists and neuroscientists.
Given a question about an issue in human cognition, one looks to see how it
works in the agents. The hypothesis, which may or may not be correct, is that
it works the same way in humans.
Here I’ll describe two such "conscious" agents, one a clerical agent operating
in a narrow domain, the other a human-like information agent "living" in a
complex, dynamic environment. I’ll briefly touch on several of their modules
and their mechanisms, including perception, action selection, memory, emotion,
learning, deliberation, language generation and metacognition.
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Dr. Kerstin Dautenhahn [log in to unmask]
Lecturer
Department of Cybernetics fax: +44 (0) 118 931-8220
The University of Reading tel: +44 (0) 118 931-8219
Whiteknights, PO Box 225 or -6372
Reading, RG6 6AY
United Kingdom http://www.cyber.rdg.ac.uk/people/kd/WWW/home.html
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