Enterprises are confronted with frequent changes in their business environment which require quick responses. Thereby, highly skilled and flexible employees play a major role since they are able to respond promptly. To enhance competencies and flexibility, the concept of employee empowerment has been proposed. In this respect, the workforce is given an increased level of autonomy and offered su...

This paper presents a machine learning strategy that tackles distributed optimization task in wireless network with an arbitrary number of randomly interconnected nodes. Individual nodes decide their optimal states coordination among other through varying backhaul links. poses technical challenge universal policy robust to random topology the network, which has not been properly addressed by co...

We introduce Mala, a cognitive architecture intended to bridge the gap between a robot’s sensorimotor and cognitive components. Mala is a multi-entity architecture inspired by Minsky’s Society of Mind and by experience in developing robots that must work in dynamic, unstructured environments. We identify several essential capabilities and characteristics of architectures needed for such robots ...

Robotic Autonomy is a seven-week, hands-on introduction to robotics designed for high school students. The course presents a broad survey of robotics, beginning with mechanism and electronics and ending with robot behavior, navigation and remote teleoperation. During the summer of 2002, Robotic Autonomy was taught to twenty eight students at Carnegie Mellon West in cooperation with NASA/Ames (M...

Information systems (IS) lectures often address audiences that consist of over one hundred students. In this setting, it is arguably difficult to consider the individual interests of each participant. This may result in students not being motivated, decreased learning outcomes as well as an overall low effectiveness of IS lectures. Self-determination theory suggests that perceived autonomy incr...

AI seems to be developing toward a theory of intelligent agents (IA), however, the theoretical basis which should underly the notion of agency has remained strikingly underdeveloped. This paper is intended to improve on this situation, by analysing the most basic notions necessary for a theory of agency: action, self, control, autonomy and adaptivity. Our main thesis is that autonomy is the ess...

Coordination of a team of agents assigned to a time critical task has proven to be a challenge for the AI community. If team members include humans, this task becomes even more complex due to human cognitive limitations. To remedy this, humans are usually provided with personal assistants, called proxies, which handle all team level coordination. Since real tasks are actually performed by human...