Representational Content and the Reciprocal Interplay of Agent and Environment

T. Bosse; C.M. Jonker; J. Treur

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Representational Content and the Reciprocal Interplay of Agent and Environment

T. Bosse, C.M. Jonker, J. Treur

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Declarative modelling approaches in principle assume a notion of representation or representational content for the modelling concepts. The notion of representational content as discussed in literature in cognitive science and philosophy of mind shows complications as soon as agent and environment have an intense reciprocal interaction. In such cases an internal agent state is affected by the way in which internal and external aspects are interwoven during (ongoing) interaction. In this paper it is shown that the classical correlational approach to representational content is not applicable, but the temporal-interactivist approach is. As this approach involves more complex temporal relationships, formalisation was used to define specifications of the representational content more precisely. These specifications have been validated by automatically checking them on traces generated by a simulation model. More-over, by mathematical proof it was shown how these specifications are entailed by the basic local properties. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies II. DALT 2004.
Publisher	Springer/Verlag
Pages	270-288
Number of pages	19
Volume	3476
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-540-31927-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-540-26172-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/11493402_16
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	2nd International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies II, DALT 2004 - New York, United States Duration: 19 Jul 2004 → 19 Jul 2004

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	3476 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Workshop	2nd International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies II, DALT 2004
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York
Period	19/07/04 → 19/07/04

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DALT04
Proceedings title: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT'04)
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Editors: Joao Leite, Andrea Omincini, Paulo Torroni, P. Yolum

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Bosse, T., Jonker, C. M., & Treur, J. (2005). Representational Content and the Reciprocal Interplay of Agent and Environment. In Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies II. DALT 2004. (Vol. 3476, pp. 270-288). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 3476 LNAI). Springer/Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11493402_16

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Bosse, T, Jonker, CM & Treur, J 2005, Representational Content and the Reciprocal Interplay of Agent and Environment. in Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies II. DALT 2004.. vol. 3476, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 3476 LNAI, Springer/Verlag, pp. 270-288, 2nd International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies II, DALT 2004, New York, New York, United States, 19/07/04. https://doi.org/10.1007/11493402_16

Representational Content and the Reciprocal Interplay of Agent and Environment. / Bosse, T.; Jonker, C.M.; Treur, J.
Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies II. DALT 2004.. Vol. 3476 Springer/Verlag, 2005. p. 270-288 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 3476 LNAI).

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Bosse T, Jonker CM, Treur J. Representational Content and the Reciprocal Interplay of Agent and Environment. In Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies II. DALT 2004.. Vol. 3476. Springer/Verlag. 2005. p. 270-288. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/11493402_16

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