Principles for Engineered Emergence (slides)
Author(s)
Beal, Jacob
Advisor(s)
Gerald Sussman
Date Issued
April 12, 2007
Series/Report no.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Abstract
Principles for Engineered EmergenceIt is difficult to establish engineering control over the behavior ofaggregates of unreliable devices with complicated interactionpatterns. I take a linguistic view of this problem, searching formechanisms that simplify the composition and abstraction ofcomplicated behaviors. From my work on various problems of aggregatecontrol in cognitive architectures and spatial computing, I havenoticed common themes in mechanisms that solve them. From these, Iextract four principles which seem to help in engineering robustaggregate behavior---self-scaling, sparseness, gradual degradation,and failure simplification---and give examples of how they can beexploited.
Subjects
artificial intelligence
amorphous computing
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