Endowing Agents with a Personal Sense of Time

9/7/00


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Table of Contents

Endowing Agents with a Personal Sense of Time

Outline

Uses of Time by a Cognitive Agent

Cassie

Embodied Cassie

GLAIR Architecture

Symbol Grounding: Alignment

Outline

Deictic Center

Subjective Time

Representation of Time

Movement of Time v.1

The Pacemaker

Quantizing Time

Movement of Time with Pacemaker

Outline

Modality Variables

Knowing What You’re Doing

When you stop

When you start

Outline

The Problem of the Fleeting Now

Motivating Joke

Fleeting Now Example 1

Fleeting Now Example 2

Fleeting Now Example 3

The Vagueness of “now”

NOW-MTF

Moving NOW with MTF

Typical Durations

Using Appropriate Granularity

Outline

Summary

When Inquire about States

When NOW Moves

For More Information

 Author: Dr. Stuart Shapiro

Email: shapiro@cse.buffalo.edu

Home Page: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/

Other information:
Department of Computer Science & Engineering State University of New York at Buffalo