The Challenge of Anticipation: A Unifying Framework for the Analysis and Design of Artificial Cognitive Systems

Article Type: Book reports From: Kybernetes, Volume 39, Issue 5

Edited by G.Pezzulo, M.V. Butz, C. Castelfranchi, R. FalconeSpringerBerlin2008i-xvi 288 pp.ISBN 978-3-540-87701-1$69.95(Soft cover)

Keywords: Artificial intelligence, Cognition, Cybernetics

This book is published in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 5225). It introduces a unifying approach for the analysis and design of artificial cognitive systems. Three of the editors are from the Instituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione (CNR) and M.V. Butz is from the Universitat Würzburg, Germany.

The text provides 11 chapters to cover its main proposal to provide a basic discussion of the future and the place of the proposed “unifying frame”for dealing with artificial cognitive systems. It is a state-of-the-art survey and the publishers write that “its authors propose a foundational view of the importance of dealing with the future” of gaining some autonomy from current environmental data and of endogenously generating sensor imotor and abstract representations.