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Towards Representational Autonomy of Agents in Artificial Environments

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2006)

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Autonomy is a crucial property of an artificial agent. The type of representational structures and the role they play in the preservation of an agent’s autonomy are pointed out. A framework of self-organised Peircean semiotic processes is introduced and it is then used to demonstrate the emergence of grounded representational structures in agents interacting with their environment.

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  1. Deptartment of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean, Syros, Greece

    Argyris Arnellos, Spyros Vosinakis, Thomas Spyrou & John Darzentas

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  1. Computer Science Department of University of Crete, Greece

    Grigoris Antoniou

  2. Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385, 71110, Heraklion, Greece

    George Potamias

  3. Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos", 15310 A., Paraskevi Attikis, Greece

    Costas Spyropoulos

  4. Institute of Computer Science, FO.R.T.H., Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385, GR 71110, Heraklion, Greece

    Dimitris Plexousakis

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Arnellos, A., Vosinakis, S., Spyrou, T., Darzentas, J. (2006). Towards Representational Autonomy of Agents in Artificial Environments. In: Antoniou, G., Potamias, G., Spyropoulos, C., Plexousakis, D. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. SETN 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3955. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11752912_48

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