University of Sussex
Browse

File(s) not publicly available

Psychoanalysis of a minimal agent

presentation
posted on 2023-06-08, 04:56 authored by Santosh Manicka, Inman HarveyInman Harvey
The Secretary problem is studied with minimal cognitive agents, being a problem that needs memory and judgment. A sequence of values, drawn from an unknown range, is presented; the agent has only one chance to pick a single value as they are presented, and should try to maximize the value chosen. In extension of previous work (Tuci et al. 2002), Continuous Time Recurrent Neural Networks (CTRNN) are evolved to solve the problem, and then their strategies are analyzed by relating mechanisms to behavior. Strategies similar to the known optimal strategy are observed, and it is noted that significantly different strategies can be generated by very different mechanisms that perform equally well.

History

Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

MIT Press

Pages

8.0

Presentation Type

  • paper

Event name

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems

Event location

Winchester, UK

Event type

conference

ISBN

9780262750172

Department affiliated with

  • Informatics Publications

Full text available

  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

Usage metrics

    University of Sussex (Publications)

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC