SETN06, Lectures Notes in Artificial
Intelligence, (LNAI),
Springer-Verlag, 2006
Towards Representational Autonomy of Agents in Artificial Environments
Argyris Arnellos, Spyros Vosinakis,
Thomas Spyrou and John Darzentas
Univ. of the Aegean,
Dept of Product & Systems Design
Engineering, 84100, Syros, Greece
{arar, spyrosv, tsp, idarz} @ aegean.gr
Abstract. Autonomy is a crucial property of an artificial agent. The type of representational structures and the role they play in the preservation of an agent’s autonomy are pointed out. A framework of self-organised Peircean semiotic processes is introduced and it is then used to demonstrate the emergence of grounded representational structures in agents interacting with their environment.