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Action selection

Action selection is a way of characterizing the most basic problem of intelligent systems: what to do next. In artificial intelligence and computational cognitive science, "the action selection problem" is typically associated with intelligent agents and animats—artificial systems that exhibit complex behavior in an agent environment. The term is also…

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Characteristics of the action selection problem

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Action selection

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related to Further reading · 89
Action selection → ACM, Affordances, Agents'99, AI, AI Game Development, An Introduction, ANA, Archived, Artificial, Autonomous Agents, BDI-theoretic, Bot, Bratman, Brom, Bryson, Cambridge, Centre, CGI, Champandard, Cliff
related to Distributed approaches · 29
Action selection → AI, ANA, ASMO, At, Behavior, Benjamin Johnston, Creatures, Creatures Wiki, Extended Rosenblatt, Grand, In, It, Kadleček, Maes Nets, Mary-Anne Williams, Payton, PhD, Recently, Rony Novianto, See
related to External links · 14
Action selection → Agents, Archived, Brom, Introduction, Memphis, Michigan, Modelling, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Slides, The Royal Society, The University, University, Wayback MachineMichael Wooldridge
related to Others · 14
Action selection → ABL/HapFuzzy, ACT-R, Alexander Nareyek, Bayesian, BDI, Boolean, CogniTAO, Excalibur, It, POSH, Programmers, Soar, The, These
related to Theories of action selection in nature · 12
Action selection → Archived, Dynamic, In, Influenced, Konrad Lorenz, Lorenz, Many, Nikolaas Tinbergen, See, Stan Franklin, Wayback Machine, William McDougall
related to Characteristics of the action selection problem · 10
Action selection → Consequently, Do, For, For AI, However, One, Since, The, This, Why
related to AI models of neural action selection · 9
Action selection → CU Boulder, Group Archived, Lab, See, Sheffield, Some, The Adaptive Behaviour Research, The Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Wayback Machine
related to Catecholaminergic Neuron Electron Transport (CNET) · 8
Action selection → CNET, Evidence, Ferritin, It, LC, SNc, The, Those
related to Symbolic approaches · 6
Action selection → Critics, Early, It, Many, Satisficing, This
related to AI mechanisms · 4
Action selection → AI, Generally, Others, Some

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Action selectionis away of characterizing the most basic problem of intelligent systems0.90text
Action selectionis aright perspective to take in understanding the role and evolution of mind0.90text
social insect colonies or slime moldinstance ofas in the case of distributed organisms0.80text
Action selectionrelated to AI mechanismsGenerally0.60section
Action selectionrelated to AI mechanismsSome0.60section
Action selectionrelated to AI mechanismsOthers0.60section
Action selectionrelated to AI mechanismsAI0.60section
Action selectionrelated to AI models of neural action selectionSome0.60section
Action selectionrelated to AI models of neural action selectionSee0.60section
Action selectionrelated to AI models of neural action selectionThe Computational Cognitive Neuroscience0.60section
Action selectionrelated to AI models of neural action selectionLab0.60section
Action selectionrelated to AI models of neural action selectionCU Boulder0.60section

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