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Adaptation and Decision-Making Driven by Emotional Memories

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Progress in Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2005)

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The integration between emotion and cognition can provide an important support for adaptation and decision-making under resource-bounded conditions, typical of real-world domains. The ability to adjust cognitive activity and to take advantage of emotion-modulated memories are two main aspects resulting from that integration. In this paper we address those issues under the framework of the agent flow model, describing the formation of emotional memories and the regulation of their use through attention focusing. Experimental results from simulated rescue scenarios show how the proposed approach enables effective decision making and fast adaptation rates in completely unknown environments.

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  1. Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Rua Conselheiro Emídio Navarro, 1949-014, Lisboa, Portugal

    Luís Morgado

  2. Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal

    Luís Morgado & Graça Gaspar

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    Carlos Bento

  2. Department of Informatics Engineering, Coimbra University, Portugal

    Amílcar Cardoso

  3. Centre of Human Language Technology and Bioinformatics, University of Beira Interior, 6201-001, Covilhã, Portugal

    Gaël Dias

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Morgado, L., Gaspar, G. (2005). Adaptation and Decision-Making Driven by Emotional Memories. In: Bento, C., Cardoso, A., Dias, G. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence. EPIA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3808. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11595014_11

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