Behaviour Modification: An Efficacious Tool of Shaping Individual Behaviour Productive and Supportive to Organizational Goal Attainment

Learning Goal-Directed Behaviour

Learning behaviour of artificial agents is commonly studied in the framework of Reinforcement Learning. Reinforcement Learning gained increasing popularity in the past years. This is partially due to developments that enabled the possibility to employ complex function approximators, such as deep networks, in combination with the framework. Two of the core challenges in Reinforcement Learning ar...

Salt stress and transplant time in snap bean: growth and productive behaviour

High quality water is less available for agriculture and thus farmers often use saline water, that affects crop growth and yield. Snap bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is sensitive to soil and water salinity, and also to heat stress. The aim of this research is to evaluate if a postponed transplant (high temperature stress) of snap bean can influence growth and yield under saline conditions. Snap bean...

Shaping Behaviour with Adaptive Morphology

Robots which exploit their embodiment promise to be more robust, energy-efficient and adaptable. However, the majority of systems designed in this way are only capable of exploiting their embodiment when performing a single task in a single environment. For such robots to be capable of adapting to a range of tasks or environments, they must be capable of adjusting their morphology on-line and h...

PART ONE Introduction to Organizational Behaviour

Motivated Behaviour for Goal Adoption

Social behaviour arises as a result of individual agents cooperating with each other so as to exploit the resources available in a rich and dynamic multi-agent domain. If agents are to make use of others to help them in their tasks, such social behaviour is critical. Underlying this cooperation is the transfer or adoption of goals from one agent to another, a subtle and complex process that dep...