TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a part of an article. Your task is to generate headline (title) for this text. Preferred headlines are under fifteen words.
PROBLEM: Our hypothesis is that by equipping certain agents in a multi-agent system controlling an intelligent building with automated decision support, two important factors will be in­ creased. The first is energy saving in the building. The second is customer value-how the people in the building experience the ef­ fects of the actions of the agents. We give evi­ dence for the truth of this hypothesis through experimental findings related to tools for arti­ ficial decision making. A number of assump­ tions related to agent control, through moni­ toring and delegation of tasks to other kinds of agents, of rooms at a test site are relaxed. Each assumption controls at least one un­ certainty that complicates considerably the procedures for selecting actions part of each such agent. We show that in realistic deci­ sion situations, room-controlling agents can make bounded rational decisions even under dynamic real-time constraints. This result can be, and has been, generalized to other domains with even harsher time constraints.

SOLUTION: Artificial Decision Making Under Uncertainty in Intelligent Buildings

PROBLEM: A perfectly rational decision-maker chooses the best action with the highest utility gain from a set of possible actions. The optimality principles that describe such decision processes do not take into account the computational costs of finding the optimal action. Bounded rational decision-making addresses this problem by specifically trading off information-processing costs and expected utility. Interestingly, a similar trade-off between energy and entropy arises when describing changes in thermodynamic systems. This similarity has been recently used to describe bounded rational agents. Crucially, this framework assumes that the environment does not change while the decision-maker is computing the optimal policy. When this requirement is not fulfilled, the decision-maker will suffer inefficiencies in utility, that arise because the current policy is optimal for an environment in the past. Here we borrow concepts from non-equilibrium thermodynamics to quantify these inefficiencies and illustrate with simulations its relationship with computational resources.

SOLUTION: Bounded Rational Decision-Making in Changing Environments

PROBLEM: The ability to accurately perceive whether a speaker is asking a question or is making a statement is crucial for any successful interaction. However, learning and classifying tonal patterns has been a challenging task for automatic speech recognition and for models of tonal representation, as tonal contours are characterized by significant variation. This paper provides a classification model of Cypriot Greek questions and statements. We evaluate two state-of-the-art network architectures: a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network and a convolutional network (ConvNet). The ConvNet outperforms the LSTM in the classification task and exhibited an excellent performance with 95% classification accuracy.

SOLUTION:
Modelling prosodic structure using Artificial Neural Networks Modelling prosodic structure using Artificial Neural Networks