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Conservation of Information: A New Approach to Organizing Human-Machine-Robotic Agents under Uncertainty

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For many years, social scientists have struggled to make sense of the shift between individual and group perception, the difference between observation and action, and the meaning of interdependence. Interactions between these factors produce stable worldviews that contain more illusory than actual connections to reality. We attribute these struggles to scientists embedded in the social fabric, the lack of a measurement theory, and the difficulty of testing new theory with human subjects, groups and organizations. Our work includes field research with observations of citizen organizations advising the Department of Energy (DOE) on its environmental cleanup; laboratory simulations of DOE field results; stock market data; and computational modeling (coupled differential equations, control theory, AI, Gaussian distributions, uncertainty models, Fourier transform pairs, continuous and discrete wavelets). Results from laboratory experiments and stock markets agree with our theory, but many questions remain, forming a high-risk research plan. Our objective is to incorporate interdependent uncertainty into computational intelligence to better instantiate autonomy or decentralized control for mixed human-machine systems.

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  1. Paine College, 1235 15th Street, Augusta, Georgia, USA

    William F. Lawless

  2. Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Avenue SW, Washington, DC, USA

    Donald A. Sofge

  3. Earl Research, 500 Crawford St., Suite 402, VA 23704, Portsmouth, USA

    H. T. Goranson

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  1. Faculty of Science and Technology, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, 4001, Brisbane, Australia

    Peter Bruza

  2. Naval Research Laboratory, Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, 4555 Overlook Avenue S.W, DC 20375, Washington, USA

    Donald Sofge

  3. Paine College, 1235 15th Street, P.O. Box, GA 30901-3182, Augusta, USA

    William Lawless

  4. Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 17 Lilybank Gardens, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, UK

    Keith van Rijsbergen

  5. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

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Lawless, W.F., Sofge, D.A., Goranson, H.T. (2009). Conservation of Information: A New Approach to Organizing Human-Machine-Robotic Agents under Uncertainty. In: Bruza, P., Sofge, D., Lawless, W., van Rijsbergen, K., Klusch, M. (eds) Quantum Interaction. QI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5494. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00834-4_16

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