Using Asimov's "Bicentennial Man" as a springboard, a number of metaethical issues concerning the emerging field of Machine Ethics are discussed. Although the ultim...
Bill Joy's deep pessimism is now famous. "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us," his defense of that pessimism, has been read by, it seems, everyone -- and many of t...
Although the intrinsic physicality of human beings has not changed in millennia, the species has managed to profoundly reconstitute the physical and social world it inhabits. Alth...
Why do people create extra representations to help them make sense of situations, diagrams, illustrations, instructions and problems? The obvious explanation-external representatio...
If complexity is a necessary but not sufficient premise for the existence and expression of the living, anticipation is the distinguishing characteristic of what is alive. Anticipa...
As suggested by the title of Shoham, Powers, and Grenager’s position paper [34], the ultimate lens through which the multi-agent learning framework should be assessed is “what...
The process of forming coalitions of software agents generally requires calculating a value for every possible coalition which indicates how beneficial that coalition would be if...