Agent autonomy.
Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to computer science (68-06) General topics in artificial intelligence (68T01) Theory of languages and software systems (knowledge-based systems, expert systems, etc.) for artificial intelligence (68T35) Artificial intelligence (68T99) Automated systems (robots, etc.) in control theory (93C85)
[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] The book is devoted to autonomy, which is a rich characterizing notion in artificial intelligence. The book's text is divided into eleven chapters. Each of them can be considered a self-containing paper on the state of the art of some problem in the field of autonomy. The first chapter is an introduction to agent autonomy. It prepares a foundation for the study of autonomy and brings thoughts about a possible human-machine relationship. The title of the chapter: ``A prospectus on agent autonomy. The second chapter discusses the mainly theoretically grounded notion of autonomy. This discussion is done in the framework of Structured and Modular Agents and Relationship Types (SMART). Autonomy is here intimately linked with motivation. The chapter is titled ``Autonomy: Variable and generative. The third chapter on the Representing and Analyzing Adaptive Decision-Making Framework (ADMF) has as a focus on adaptive and adjustable autonomy. ADMF is presented as a form of effective and adaptive agent autonomy. Chapter 4 is focused on proposal and study of several measures of autonomy. Here, the problem of an optimal multiagent group is studied. The problem is NP-complete. Chapter 5, ``Obligations and cooperation: Two sides of social rationality , is oriented towards relations between cooperation and obligations. The notions are defined and it is stated that both notions have their origin in the social rationality of agents. In Chapter 6, ``From automaticity to autonomy: The frontier of artificial agents, a definition of autonomy is given with the goal to answer many questions from autonomy environments. Chapter 7 introduces a quantitative model for reasoning about interaction in mixed-initiative systems. It is near to works about adjustable autonomy. The chapter is titled ``Adjusting the autonomy in mixed-initiative systems by reasoning about interaction. In chapter 8, titled ``Interacting with IDA, a software agent and her interaction with humans is described. The tool of communication is natural language. Chapter 9, ``Policy-based agent directability, introduces a framework for the directability of agents. It allows a user to define polices for adjustable agent autonomy and strategy preference. Chapter 10, ``Adjustable autonomy for the real world, introduces the notion of a transfer of control strategy. Chapter 11, ``Adjustable autonomy and human-agent teamwork in practice, brings some perspective on the basic principles and pitfalls of adjustable autonomy and human-centered teamwork. The book is very readable. It is strongly recommended to scientists, teachers, developers, and students.
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