Metareasoning: Thinking about Thinking
Papers from the 2008 AAAI Workshop
Michael T. Cox, Anita Raja, Program Cochairs
Technical Report WS-08-07 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
Contents
Organizing Committee / vii
Michael T. Cox, Anita Raja
Preface / ix
Michael T. Cox and Anita Rajan
Section I: Preliminaries
Metareasoning: A Manifesto / 1
Michael T. Cox, Anita Raja
There’s No Me in Meta — or Is There? / 5
Don Perlis
Varieties of Meta-cognition in Natural and Artificial Systems / 12
Aaron Sloman
Section II: Meta-Level Control
Using Introspective Reasoning to Improve CBR System Performance / 21
Josep Lluís Arcos, Oguz Mülâyim, David Leake
Metareasoning as a Formal Computational Problem / 29
Vincent Conitzer
Metacognition and the Process of Switching between Reasoning Frames / 34
James L Eilbert
Learning Expertise with Bounded Rationality and Self-awareness / 40
Susan L. Epstein, Smiljana Petrovic
In Situ Reconfiguration of Heuristic Search on a Problem Instance Basis / 48
Santiago Franco, Mike Barley
New Approaches for Meta-Heuristic Frameworks: A Position Paper / 52
David Alfred Ostrowski, George M. Schleis
Metareasoning and Bounded Rationality / 55
Shlomo Zilberstein
Section III: Introspective Monitoring
Argumentation vs Meta-argumentation for the Assessment of Multi-agent Conflict / 60
Boris Galitsky, Sergei O. Kuznetsov, Boris Kovalerchuk
Question Asking to Inform Procedure Learning / 68
Melinda Gervasio, Karen Myers
Retrospective Self-Adaptation of an Agent’s Domain Knowledge: Perceptually-Grounded Semantics for Structural Credit Assignment / 76
Joshua Jones, Ashok K. Goel
Meta-Reasoning for Multi-Spectral Satellite Image Interpretation / 84
Paul Robertson, Robert Laddaga
Section IV: Multiagent Metareasoning
Weighted Prediction Divergence for Metareasoning / 90
Brett Borghetti, Maria Gini
Distributed Meta-Management for Self-Protection and Self-Explanation / 98
Catriona M. Kennedy
Coordinating Agents’ Meta-Level Control / 106
Anita Raja, Victor Lesser
Beyond Minimax: Nonzero-Sum Game Tree Search with Knowledge Oriented Players / 113
Tian Sang, Jiun-Hung Chen
Section V: Models of Self
A Multi-layer Framework for Evolving and Learning Agents / 121
Stefania Costantini, Pierangelo Dell’Acqua, Luís Moniz Pereira
Anthropomorphic Self-Models for Metareasoning Agents / 129
Andrew S. Gordon, Jerry R. Hobbs, Michael T. Cox
Developing a Meta-Level Problem Solver for Integrated Learners / 136
Jihie Kim, Yolanda Gil
Extending Introspective Learning from Self-Models / 143
David Leake, Mark Wilson
Human-Level AI Requires Compassionate Intelligence / 147
Cindy L. Mason
Metareasoning as an Integral Part of Commonsense and Autocognitive Reasoning / 151
Fabrizio Morbini, Lenhart Schubert
Self-Awareness as Metacognition about Own Self Concept / 159
Alexei V. Samsonovich, Anastasia Kitsantas, Nada Dabbagh, Kenneth A. De Jong
The Role of Metacognition in Robust AI Systems / 163
Matthew D. Schmill, Tim Oates, Michael L. Anderson, Darsana Josyula, Don Perlis, Shomir Wilson, Scott Fults
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