Artificial Life, Autonomous Agents

Number 2 is my first foray into the emerging field of artificial life. Number 3, is a tour of mechanisms of mind, that is of autonomous agents. In progress since Summer of 1991, it has spawned a sabbatical leave, a faculty research grant, a new course, and four dissertation projects. Number 4 is my first software agent paper. Number 5 kicked off a panel discussion on What is an Agent? at the ATAL'96 workshop in Budapest. Number 9 resulted from a panel discussion during a conference in Coventry, England. Number 10 is a commentary on a paper of Baars.

1. "Parallel Genetic Search Via Clans," (with David Kilman and Dinah Dickerson and Seok Wong), Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, vol 2 (Proceedings of the Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE '92) Conference), C.H. Dagli et al eds, New York: ASME Press, (1992) 927- 935.

2. "Character Recognition Agents," (with Lijia Zhou), Proceedings of Artificial Life IV, MIT Press, 1994, 301-306.

3. Artificial Minds, MIT Press,September, 1995. (Table of Contents)(Description)(Reviews)

4."SUMPY: A Fuzzy Software Agent" (with Hongjun Song and Aregahegn Negatu) ed. F. C. Harris, Jr., Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the ISCA 5th International Conference, (Reno Nevada, June 1996) Raleigh NC: International Society for Computers
and Their Applications - ISCA, 124-129.

5. "Is it an Agent, or just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agent," (with Art Graesser) Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, published as Intelligent Agents III, Springer-Verlag, 1997, 21-35.

6. "Virtual Mattie--an Intelligent Clerical Agent," (with Art Graesser, Brent Olde, Hongjun Song, and Aregahegn Negatu), presented to the AAAI Symposium on Embodied Cognition and Action, Cambridge MA, November 1996.

7. "Coordination without Communication"

8. "Autonomous Agents as Embodied AI," Cybernetics and Systems, special issue on Epistomological Issues in Embodied AI, 28:6 (1997) 499-520.

9. "On Cooperation in Multi-Agent Systems," (with J.E. Doran, N.R. Jennings and T.J. Norman) The Knowledge Engineering Review Vol 12 (3) 1997, 309-314.

10. "Global Workspace Agents," Journal of Consciousness Studies, 4 (4) 1997, 322-234.).

11. "Natural Language Sensing for Autonomous Agents," (with Zhaohua Zhang, Brent Olde, Art Graesser, and Yun Wan), INTERNATIONAL IEEE JOINT SYMPOSIA on INTELLIGENCE and SYSTEMS, to appear.

12. "Learning Concepts in Software Agents," (with Uma Ramamurthy and Aregahegn Negatu), From Animals to Animat (Proc. SAB'98) to appear.

13. "Metacognition in Software Agents Using Classifier Systems" (with Zhaohua Zhang and Dipankar Dasgupta) Proc AAAI'98 to appear.

14. IDA: A Cognitive Agent Architecture, (with Arpad Kelemen and Lee McCauley) Proc IEEE SMC'98, 2636-7651.

15. "Consciousness" and Conceptual Learning In A Socially Situated Agent. (with Myles Bogner, and Uma Ramamurthy. in Kerstin Dautenhahn, ed. Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology, in press.

16. "Conscious Learning In An Adaptive Software Agent." (with Uma Ramamurthy and Myles Bogner).Proc. of The Second Asia Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning. Canberra, Australia, 24-27 Nov. 1998.

17. "An Architecture for Emotion," (with Thomas L. McCauley) AAAI 1998 Fall Symposium "Emotional and Intelligent: The Tangled Knot of Cognition"

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