Authors:
Samer Schaat
;
Klaus Doblhammer
and
Dietmar Dietrich
Affiliation:
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Keyword(s):
Cognitive Architectures, Artificial General Intelligence, Cognitive Agents, Motivations, Valuations, Emotions.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agent Models and Architectures
;
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Autonomous Systems
;
Cognitive Robotics
;
Cognitive Systems
;
Computational Intelligence
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Evolutionary Computing
;
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Robotics and Automation
;
Soft Computing
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
In developing cognitive agents using a functional model of the human mind as their decision unit, a model of motivations and valuations is needed as the basis for the agents’ decision making. This enables agents to cope with their internal and external world while pursuing their own agenda. We show that a technical model based on the psychoanalytical drive concept and Damasio’s neuro-biological findings is appropriate for human-inspired cognitive agents. In particular, after overcoming the hurdles of interdisciplinary work between
hermeneutic and axiomatic approaches, a transformation of psychoanalytical and neuro-biological concepts into an consistent and deterministic model solves the problem of motivations and valuations in artificial cognitive agents. This multi-level model is presented, in which multiple principles and influences of valuation are used to incrementally generate and decide an agenda for the agent’s behavior.