The illusion of agency: Two engineering approaches to compromise autonomy and reactivity in an artificial system

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 402-420

  Aucouturier, Jean Julien ^a   Ikegami, Takashi ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agency; Autonomy; Chaotic itinerancy; Constraint programming; Interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350067472     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059712309344420     Document Type: Article

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