What do You Want to do Today?: Relevant-Information Bookkeeping in Goal-Oriented Behaviour

Sander G. van Dijk; D. Polani; C.L. Nehaniv

What do You Want to do Today? Relevant-Information Bookkeeping in Goal-Oriented Behaviour

Sander G. van Dijk, D. Polani, C.L. Nehaniv

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Abstract

We extend existing models and methods for the informational
treatment of the perception-action loop to the case of goaloriented
behaviour and introduce the notion of relevant goal
information as the amount of information an agent necessarily
has to maintain about its goal. Starting from the hypothesis
that organisms use information economically, we study
the structure of this information and how goal-information
parsimony can guide behaviour. It is shown how these methods
lead to a general definition and quantification of sub-goals
and how the biologically motivated hypothesis of information
parsimony gives rise to the emergence of behavioural properties
such as least-commitment and goal-concealing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Procs of Artificial Life XII
Editors	Harold Fellermann, Mark Dorr, Martin M. Hanczyc
Publisher	MIT Press
Pages	176-183
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	0-262-29075-8, 978-0-262-29075-3
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	Artificial Life XII - Odense, Denmark Duration: 19 Aug 2010 → 23 Aug 2010

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Conference	Artificial Life XII
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Odense
Period	19/08/10 → 23/08/10

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