REGULATION PROBLEMS IN EXPLORER AGENTS

ABSTRACT

In the present study, we investigate and analyze the behavior of explorer agents. We perform a number of experiments with single and multiple agents and we obtain a number of corresponding results. First, we decouple the agent's functional/motivational system from its cognitive/representational system and show that intricate regulation is necessary to achieve effective and efficient behavior. In the multiple agents case, we extend the single agent behavioral model with a form of sociality selected from a progression of alternatives designed and evaluated. We also show how the general regulation perspective allows for design and analysis of explorer systems. We do not miss to provide variations of the problem and potential applications all along the way.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Part of this work has been completed while the author was a Ph.D. candidate in the LAFORIA-IBP (Laboratoire Formes et Intelligence Artificielle, Institut Blaise Pascal, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France) under the supervision of Professor Jacques Ferber. I wish to thank Claude Delaye, Dominique Duhaut, Jacques Ferber, Steffen Lalande, Bernard Victorri, and Costas Tzafestas for fruitful discussions and suggestions.