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ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Dialectic Architecture for Computational Autonomy
This paper takes the view that to be considered autonomous, a software agent must possess the means by which to manage its own motivations and so define new goals. Using the motiva...
Mark Witkowski, Kostas Stathis
KSEM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Autonomy: Life and Being
This paper uses robot experience to explore key concepts of autonomy, life and being. Unfortunately, there are no widely accepted definitions of autonomy, life or being. Using a ne...
Mary-Anne Williams
DEXAW
2003
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Towards an Autonomic Computing Environment
Autonomic Computing is a promising new concept in system development. It aims to (i) increase reliability by designing systems to be self-protecting and self-healing; and (ii) inc...
Roy Sterritt, David W. Bustard
ISVC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Control Architecture for Long-Term Autonomy of Robotic Assistants
A major challenge in deploying service robots into the real world is to design a framework that provides effective, long-term interactions with people. This includes interacting w...
Christopher King, Xavier Palathingal, Monica N. Ni...
POPL
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Low-pain, high-gain multicore programming in Haskell: coordinating irregular symbolic computations on multicore architectures
With the emergence of commodity multicore architectures, exploiting tightly-coupled parallelism has become increasingly important. Functional programming languages, such as Haskel...
Abdallah Al Zain, Kevin Hammond, Jost Berthold, Ph...