Deploying Affect-Inspired Mechanisms to Enhance Agent Decision-Making and Communication
Contributors: Grosz, Barbara J.; Pfeffer, Avi J.; Parkes, David C.; Gajos, Krzysztof Z.
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Description: Computer agents are required to make appropriate decisions quickly and efficiently. As the environments in which they act become increasingly complex, efficient decision-making becomes significantly more challenging. This thesis examines the positive ways in which human emotions influence people's ability to make good decisions in complex, uncertain contexts, and develops computational analogues of these beneficial functions, demonstrating their usefulness in agent decision-making and communication.
Notes: Keywords: affective computing, artificial intelligence, computational models of emotion, decision-making, game theory, reasoning patterns.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2012