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Quantitative Modeling of Complex Environments

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  • Keith S. Decker
  • Victor R. Lesser

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There are many formal approaches to specifying how the mental state of an agent entails the particular actions it will perform. These approaches put the agent at the center of analysis. For some questions and purposes, it is more realistic and convenient for the center of analysis to be the task environment, domain or society of which agents will be a part. This paper presents such a task environment‐oriented modeling framework that can work hand in hand with more agent‐centered approaches. Our approach features careful attention to the quantitative computational interrelationships between tasks, to what information is available (and when) to update an agent's mental state and to the general structure of the task environment rather than single‐instance examples. A task environment model can be used for both analysis and simulation, it avoids the methodological problems of relying solely on single‐instance examples and provides concrete, meaningful characterizations with which to state general theories. This paper is organized around an example model of co‐operative problem solving in a distributed sensor network.

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  • Keith S. Decker & Victor R. Lesser, 1993. "Quantitative Modeling of Complex Environments," Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 2(4), pages 215-234, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:isacfm:v:2:y:1993:i:4:p:215-234
    DOI: 10.1002/j.1099-1174.1993.tb00044.x
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