TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints3950
UR  - http://cogprints.org/3950/
A1  - Anderson, Dr. Michael L.
A1  - Perlis, Prof. Donald R.
Y1  - 2005/02//
N2  - This essay describes a general approach to building perturbation-tolerant autonomous systems, based on the conviction that artificial agents should be able notice when something is amiss, assess the anomaly, and guide a solution into place. We call this basic strategy of self-guided learning the metacognitive loop; it involves the system monitoring, reasoning about, and, when necessary, altering its own decision-making components. In this essay, we (a) argue that equipping agents with a metacognitive loop can help to overcome the brittleness problem, (b) detail the metacognitive loop and its relation to our ongoing work on time-sensitive commonsense reasoning, (c) describe specific, implemented systems whose perturbation tolerance was improved by adding a metacognitive loop, and (d) outline both short-term and long-term research agendas.
KW  - Metareasoning
KW  -  time
KW  -  non-monotonic reasoning
KW  -  active logic
KW  - 
brittleness
KW  -  autonomous agents
TI  - Logic, self-awareness and self-improvement: The metacognitive loop and the problem of brittleness
SP  - 21
AV  - public
EP  - 40
ER  -

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