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Collective Cognition—Mathematical Foundations ofDistributed IntelligenceSanta Fe Institute, 22-26 January 2002 Welcome! Focus: Adaptation and Learning in Collectives Goals: Open problems: definitional, methodological? Promising application areas? Canonical problems: tractable, but capture essentials What fields do we need to learn? Atmosphere: Rethink your assumptions Schedule: Wednesday evening: Dinner at El Farol Thursday afternoon: Self-organizing Collective Cognition—Mathematical Foundations ofDistributed IntelligenceSanta Fe Institute, 22-26 January 2002 Workshop Sponsors Intel Corp., Research Division Cisco Systems DARPA: Agent-Based Computing Program, TASK SFI: Robustness Program: Packard Foundation Evolutionary Dynamics Program: Keck Foundation Core Funds NSF MacArthur Foundation Business Network Thanks to SFI Staff: Andi, Sarah, ... Foundations and Open Questions What would a foundational approach look like? Dynamics of Learning Emergence of Distributed Adaptation Strategies: Prototype Models: Simple enough to analyze, but nontrivial Simulation: Phenomenology of learning dynamics, collective behavior Theory: Basic constraints/observables, quantitative predictions Experiment: Natural and artificial systems Foundations and Open Questions Methods: … add your favorites here ... Dynamical Systems and Pattern Formation Theory Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Machine Learning and Modern Statistical Inference Information and Computation Theories Game Theory (Economics , Population Dynamics (Ecology, Evolution) What is an Intelligent Agent? Some Open Questions Learning Agents Learning: a dynamical system of successive predictive models States ~ Current knowledge of world and self Dynamic ~ Sensory input internal computation ? update this knowledge Valuation ~ Minimize prediction error, resource use, ... What is an Intelligent Agent? Some Open Questions What state-space structures required for learning? Attractors