Look-ahead relevant information: Reducing cognitive burden over prolonged tasks

S. van Dijk, D. Polani

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Abstract

Based on the fact that information processing is costly, we study in this paper the trade-off between performance and informational requirements. Most importantly, we are interested in how local decisions can alleviate future cognitive burden, measured by the amount of sensory information an agent processes, without conceding performance. We introduce lookahead information as a novel concept to capture the long-term informational requirements and present an iterative method to determine the value of this quantity. Using an example problem, we show how these long-term considerations enable an agent to predict future effects of its actions on its informational burden, and to shape the course of the world to achieve more informationally parsimonious behaviour.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProcs of 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages46-53
Number of pages8
Edition1st
ISBN (Print)978-161284063-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
EventALIFE 2011 - Paris, France
Duration: 11 Apr 201115 Apr 2011

Publication series

NameSymposium Series on Computational Intelligence - IEEE ALIFE 2011
PublisherIEEE

Conference

ConferenceALIFE 2011
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period11/04/1115/04/11

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