The Epistemological Foundations of Artificial Agents
Authors: Lacey N.J.1; Lee M.H.2
Source: Minds and Machines, Volume 13, Number 3, August 2003 , pp. 339-365(27)
Publisher: Springer
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Abstract:
A situated agent is one which operates within an environment. In most cases, the environment in which the agent exists will be more complex than the agent itself. This means that an agent, human or artificial, which wishes to carry out non-trivial operations in its environment must use techniques which allow an unbounded world to be represented within a cognitively bounded agent. We present a brief description of some important theories within the fields of epistemology and metaphysics. We then discuss ways in which philosophical problems of scepticism are related to the problems faced by knowledge representation. We suggest that some of the methods that philosophers have developed to address the problems of epistemology may be relevant to the problems of representing knowledge within artificial agents.
Keywords: agent knowledge representation; relations between philosophy and artificial intell
Language: English
Document Type: Research article
Affiliations: 1: Multi-Agent Systems Research Group, Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA 2: Centre for Advanced Software and Intelligent Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth SY23 3BD, Wales, UK
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