Aims, Objectives, and Questions
Aim and Objectives
Most of the research over the last years in artificial adaptive behavior concerned with model learning and anticipatory behavior has focused on the model learning side. Research is particularly engaged in online generalized model learning. Until now, though, exploitation of the model has been done mainly to show that exploitation is possible or that an appropriate model exists in the first place. Only very few applications are available that show the utility of the model for the simulation of anticipatory behavior.
The aim of the workshop and the upcoming post-workshop volume "Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems" is to lay out the foundations for a study of anticipatory learning and behavior. The content of the book will be divided roughly into three main chapters. The first chapter will provide psychological background that not only supports the presence of anticipatory mechanisms in ``higher'' animals and humans but also sheds light on when and why anticipatory mechanisms can be useful. Chapter 2 will provide several frameworks for the study of anticipatory mechanisms distinguishing fundamentally different mechanisms. Finally, Chapter 3 will contain examples of frameworks and systems.
Essential questions
- How can anticipations influence the adaptive behavior of an artificial learning system?
- How can anticipatory adaptive behavior be implemented in an artificial learning system?
- How does an incomplete model influence anticipatory behavior?
- How do anticipations guide further model learning?
- How do anticipations control attention?
- Can anticipations be used for the detection of special environmental properties?
- What are the benefits of anticipations for adaptive behavior?
- What is the trade-off between simple bottom-up stimulus-response driven behavior and more top-down anticipatory driven behavior?
- In what respect does anticipation mediate between low-level environmental processing and more complex cognitive simulation?
- What role do anticipations play for the implementation of motivations and emotions?