Will, In NARS I use dynamic resource allocation. See http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/wang.computation.pdf and http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/pub/wang.resource.ps
A similar approach is Hofstadter's "parallel terraced scan", see http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/parallel.html Beside the references you mentioned, you may also want to check out the other works reported at 1996 AAAI Symposium on "Flexible Computation" (http://flexcomp.microsoft.com/flexpr.htm), and Stuart Russell and Eric Wefald, Principles of Meta-Reasoning, http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/russell91principles.html plus the psychological literature on attention and memory. I'd be very interested in your paper. Pei On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:30 AM, William Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The resource allocation problem and why it needs to be solved first > > How much memory and processing power should you apply to the following > things?: > > Visual Processing > Reasoning > Sound Processing > Seeing past experiences and how they apply to the current one > Searching for new ways of doing things > Applying each heuristic > > Is there one right way of deciding these things when you have limited > resources? At time A might you want more reasoning done (while in a > debate) and at time B more visual processing (while driving). > > There is also the long term memory problem, should you remember your > first kiss or the first star trek episode you saw. Which is more > important? > > An intelligent system needs to solve this problem for itself, as only > it will know what is important for the problems it faces. That is it > is a local problem. It also requires resources itself. If resources > are tight then very approximate methods of determining how many > resources to spend on each activity. > > Due to this, the resource management should not be algorithmic, but > free to adapt to the amount of resources at hand. I'm intent on a > economic solution to the problem, where each activity is an economic > actor. > > This approach needs to be at the lowest level because each activity > has to be programmed with the knowledge of how to act in an economic > setting as well as to perform its job. How much should it pay for the > other activities of the the programs around it? > > I'll attempt to write a paper on this, with proper references (Baum, > Mark Miller et Al.) But I would be interested in feedback at this > stage, > > Will Pearson > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=98558129-0bdb63 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
