Conscious Software Agents

"Conscious" software agents are software agents (Franklin, S., and A. C. Graesser. 1997. Is it an Agent, or just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents. In Intelligent Agents III. Berlin: Springer Verlag.) whose architecture and mechanisms implement Baars' global workspace theory (Baars, B. J. 1988. A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.)

Franklin, S., A. Graesser, B. Olde, H. Song, and A. Negatu; 1996. Virtual Mattie—an Intelligent Clerical Agent. Symposium on Embodied Cognition and Action; AAAI; Cambridge, MA; Nov .

Franklin, S. 1997. Global Workspace Agents. Journal of Consciousness Studies 4:322-334.

Ramamurthy, U., M. Bogner, and S. Franklin. 1998. "Conscious" Learning in an Adaptive Software Agent. In Proceedings of the Second Asia Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, ed. X. Yao, R. I. McKay, C. S. Newton, J. H. Kim, and T. Furuhashi. Canberra, Australia: University of New South Wales.

Ramamurthy, U., S. Franklin, and A. Negatu. 1998. Learning Concepts in Software Agents. In From animals to animats 5: Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, ed. R. Pfeifer, B. Blumberg, J.-A. Meyer, and S. W. Wilson. Cambridge,Mass: MIT Press.

Zhang, Z., D. Dasgupta, and S. Franklin. 1998. Metacognition in Software Agents using Classifier Systems. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Madison, Wisconsin: MIT Press.

Franklin, S. 1999. Action Selection and Language Generation in "Conscious" Software Agents. Workshop on Behavior Planning for   Life-Like Characters and Avatars I3; Sitges, Spain; March 1999 .

Franklin, S., and A. Graesser; 1998. Conscious Software: Oxymoron or Inevitability?. oral, Toward a Science of Consciousness: "Tucson III", Tucson, AZ; April 27 - May 2 .

McCauley, T. L., and S. Franklin. 1998. An Architecture for Emotion. In AAAI Fall Symposium Emotional and Intelligent: The Tangled Knot of Cognition. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

Zhang, Z., S. Franklin, B. Olde, Y. Wan, and A. Graesser. 1998. Natural Language Sensing for Autonomous Agents. In Proceedings of IEEE International Joint Symposia on Intellgence Systems 98.

Franklin, S., and A. Graesser. 1999. A Software Agent Model of Consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition 8:285-305.

McCauley, L., S. Franklin, and M. Bogner. 1999. An Emotion-Based "Conscious" Software Agent Architecture. International Workshop on Affect in Interaction. EC I3. Siena (Italy); October 20-22, 1999 .

Negatu, A., and S. Franklin; 1999. Behavioral learning for adaptive software agents. Intelligent Systems: ISCA 5th International Conference; International Society for Computers and Their Applications - ISCA; Denver, Colorado. June 1999 .

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