JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS
(JCP)
ISSN : 1796-203X
Volume: 1,
Issue: 6, Date : September 2006
The Emergence of Autonomous Representations in Artificial Agents
Argyris Arnellos, Spyros Vosinakis, Thomas Spyrou and John Darzentas
Dept. of Product and
Systems Design Engineering,
University of the Aegean, GR 84100
Ermoupolis, Syros, Greece
E-mail: {arar, spyrosv, tsp, idarz}@aegean.gr
Abstract:
Representational autonomy is a key 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. The limitations of the traditional cognitivist approach and of the embodied intelligent approach to support such representational structures are described and indicated. A framework of self-organising Peircean semiotic processes is introduced and it is then applied to demonstrate the emergence of autonomous representations in an artificial agent interacting with the environment.
Keywords: representation, autonomy, self-organisation, Peircean semiotics, emergence, agent.