creators_name: Romero Lopez, Oscar Javier creators_id: ojrlopez@hotmail.com editors_name: Taylor, Sarah type: journalp datestamp: 2012-11-09 19:23:18 lastmod: 2012-11-09 19:23:18 metadata_visibility: show title: An evolutionary behavioral model for decision making ispublished: pub subjects: bio-behav subjects: comp-sci-art-intel subjects: comp-sci-complex-theory subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn subjects: comp-sci-robot full_text_status: public keywords: Intelligent and autonomous agents, adaptive behavior, automated planning, behavior networks, evolutionary computation, gene expression programming abstract: For autonomous agents the problem of deciding what to do next becomes increasingly complex when acting in unpredictable and dynamic environments pursuing multiple and possibly conflicting goals. One of the most relevant behavior-based model that tries to deal with this problem is the one proposed by Maes, the Bbehavior Network model. This model proposes a set of behaviors as purposive perception-action units which are linked in a nonhierarchical network, and whose behavior selection process is orchestrated by spreading activation dynamics. In spite of being an adaptive model (in the sense of self-regulating its own behavior selection process), and despite the fact that several extensions have been proposed in order to improve the original model adaptability, there is not a robust model yet that can self-modify adaptively both the topological structure and the functional purpose of the network as a result of the interaction between the agent and its environment. Thus, this work proffers an innovative hybrid model driven by gene expression programming, which makes two main contributions: (1) given an initial set of meaningless and unconnected units, the evolutionary mechanism is able to build well-defined and robust behavior networks which are adapted and specialized to concrete internal agent's needs and goals; and (2) the same evolutionary mechanism is able to assemble quite complex structures such as deliberative plans (which operate in the long-term) and problem-solving strategies. date: 2011-12-16 date_type: published publication: Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems volume: 19 number: 6 publisher: Sage Publications, Inc. pagerange: 451-475 refereed: TRUE referencetext: Booker L, Goldberg D, Holland J (1989) Classifier systems and genetic algorithms. Artificial Intelligence Butz MV, Goldberg DE, Stolzmann W (2002) The anticipatory classifier system and genetic generalization. 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