Exploring empowerment as a basis for quantifying sustainability

J.T. Kim; D. Polani

doi:10.1109/ALIFE.2009.4937690

Exploring empowerment as a basis for quantifying sustainability

J.T. Kim, D. Polani

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Empowerment quantifies the choice available to an agent as the actuation channel capacity. However, not all such choices are sustainable: After some choices, the agent may not be able to return to its original state, or returning there may be costly. In this paper we explore whether empowerment can be adapted to obtain a measure of sustainability. As a straightforward modification, the agent's options is restricted to actions that are reversible within a given time horizon. We furthermore investigate the lengths of return paths and discuss their potential to indicate sustainability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Procs IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life
Subtitle of host publication	ALife '09
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	21-28
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-2763-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ALIFE.2009.4937690
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life 2009 - Nashville, United States Duration: 3 Mar 2009 → 2 Apr 2009

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Conference	IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	Nashville
Period	3/03/09 → 2/04/09

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