Agent Autonomy

by Hexmoor, Henry; Castelfranchi, Cristiano; Falcone, Rino

• ISBN13: 9781402074028
• ISBN10: 1402074026
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Autonomy is a characterizing notion of agents, and intuitively it is rather unambiguous. The quality of autonomy is recognized when it is perceived or experienced, yet it is difficult to limit autonomy in a definition. The desire to build agents that exhibit a satisfactory quality of autonomy includes agents that have a long life, are highly independent, can harmonize their goals and actions with humans and other agents, and are generally socially adept. Agent Autonomy is a collection of papers from leading international researchers that approximate human intuition, dispel false attributions, and point the way to scholarly thinking about autonomy. A wide array of issues about sharing control and initiative between humans and machines, as well as issues about peer level agent interaction, are addressed.

Table of Contents

A Prospectus on Agent Autonomy	1	(10)
Henry Hexmoor
Cristiano Castelfranchi
Rino Falcone
Autonomy: Variable and Generative	11	(18)
Michael Luck
Mark D'Inverno
Steve Munroe
Representing and Analyzing Adaptive Decision-Making Frameworks	29	(26)
K.S. Barber
I.M. Gamba
C.E. Martin
Quantifying Relative Autonomy in Multiagent Interaction	55	(20)
Sviatoslav Braynov
Henry Hexmoor
Obligations and Cooperation: Two Sides of Social Rationality	75	(28)
Guido Boella
From Automaticity to Autonomy: The Frontier of Artificial Agents	103	(34)
Cristiano Castelfranchi
Rino Falcone
Adjusting the Autonomy in Mixed-initiative Systems by Reasoning about Interaction	137	(22)
Robin Cohen
Michael Fleming
Interacting with IDA	159	(28)
Stan Franklin
Lee McCauley
Policy-based Agent Directability	187	(24)
Karen L. Myers
David N. Morley
Adjustable Autonomy for the Real World	211	(32)
Paul Scerri
David Pynadath
Milind Tambe
Adjustable Autonomy and Human-Agent Teamwork in Practice: An Interim Report on Space Applications	243	(38)
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Maarten Sierhuis
Alessandro Acquisti
Paul Feltovich
Robert Hoffman
Renia Jeffers
Debbie Prescott
Niranjan Suri
Andrezej Uszok
Ron Van Hoof
Index	281