Publications

Bieger, J., Thórisson, K.R., Steunebrink, B.R., Thorarenson, T., Sigurðardóttir, J.S. (2016). Adaptive Systems Evaluation: The Why, What & How. International Workshop on Evaluating General-Purpose AI (EGPAI 2016), 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016). (Forthcoming.)

Thórisson, K.R., Kremelberg, D., Steunebrink, B.R., Nivel, E. (2016). About Understanding. In Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2016), LNAI 9782, pages 106-117. Springer, Heidelberg. PDF

Thórisson, K.R., Bieger, J., Thorarenson, T., Sigurðardóttir, J.S., Steunebrink, B.R. (2016). Why Artificial Intelligence Needs a Task Theory — And What It Might Look Like. In Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2016), LNAI 9782, pages 118-128. Springer, Heidelberg. PDF

Steunebrink, B.R., Thórisson, K.R., Schmidhuber, J. (2016). Growing Recursive Self-Improvers. In Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2016), LNAI 9782, pages 129-139. Springer, Heidelberg. PDF

Greff, K., Srivastava, R.K., Koutník, J. Steunebrink, B.R., Schmidhuber, J. (2015). LSTM: A Search Space Odyssey. arXiv preprint

Nivel, E., Thórisson, K.R., Steunebrink, B.R., Schmidhuber, J. (2015). Anytime Bounded Rationality. In Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2015), LNAI 9205, pages 121-130. Springer, Heidelberg. PDF

Thórisson, K.R., Nivel, E., Steunebrink, B.R., Helgason, H.P., Pezzulo, G., Sanz, R., Schmidhuber, J., Dindo, H., Rodríguez, M., Chella, A., Jonsson, G.K., Ognibene, D., Hernández, C. (2014). Autonomous Acquisition of Natural Situated Communication. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems (IJCSIS) (ISSN: 1646-3692), forthcoming. PDF

Nivel, E., Thórisson, K.R., Steunebrink, B.R., Dindo, H., Pezzulo, G., Rodríguez, M., Hernández, C., Ognibene, D., Schmidhuber, J., Sanz, R., Helgason, H.P., Chella, A. (2014). Bounded Seed-AGI. In Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2014). Springer, Heidelberg. PDF

Nivel, E., Thórisson, K.R., Steunebrink, B.R., Dindo, H., Pezzulo, G., Rodríguez, M., Hernández, C., Ognibene, D., Schmidhuber, J., Sanz, R., Helgason, H.P., Chella, A., Jonsson, G.K. (2014). Autonomous Acquisition of Natural Language. In A.P. dos Reis, P. Kommers, and P. Isaías, editors, Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Intelligent Systems & Agents 2014 (ISA-14), pages 58-66, Lisbon, Portugal. PDF (Winner of Best Paper Award.)

Steunebrink, B.R., Koutník, J., Thórisson, K.R., Nivel, E. & Schmidhuber, J. (2013). Resource-Bounded Machines are Motivated to be Effective, Efficient, and Curious. In K.-U. Kühnberger, S. Rudolph, and P. Wang, editors, Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2013), LNAI 7999, pages 119-129. Springer, Heidelberg. PDF (Winner of Kurzweil Prize for Best AGI Idea.)

Srivastava, R.K., Steunebrink, B.R. & Schmidhuber, J. (2013). First Experiments with PowerPlay. Neural Computation, 41:130-136. arXiv preprint

Steunebrink, B.R. & Schmidhuber, J. (2012). Towards an Actual Gödel Machine Implementation: A Lesson in Self-Reflective Systems. In P. Wang and B. Goertzel, editors, Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence, chapter 10, pages 173-196, Springer. PDF

Srivastava, R.K., Steunebrink, B.R., Stollenga, M. & Schmidhuber, J. (2012). Continually Adding Self-Invented Problems to the Repertoire: First Experiments with PowerPlay. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob'12), San Diego, CA. PDF

Steunebrink, B.R., Dastani, M.M. & Meyer, J.-J.Ch. (2012). A Formal Model of Emotion Triggers: An Approach for BDI Agents. Synthese, 185(1):83-129, Springer. PDF

Steunebrink, B.R. & Schmidhuber, J. (2011). A Family of Gödel Machine Implementations. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2011), Springer. Paper Poster

Steunebrink, B.R. (2010). The Logical Structure of Emotions. Ph.D. thesis, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ISBN 978-90-393-5329-5. PDF

Steunebrink, B.R., Dastani, M.M. & Meyer, J.-J.Ch. (2010). Emotions to Control Agent Deliberation. In van der Hoek, Kaminka, Lespérance, Luck & Sen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'10). Toronto, Canada. PDF

Steunebrink, B.R., Dastani, M.M. & Meyer, J.-J.Ch. (2009). A Formal Model of Emotion-Based Action Tendency for Intelligent Agents. In Proceedings of the 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'09), Springer-Verlag. PDF

Steunebrink, B.R., Dastani, M.M. & Meyer, J.-J.Ch. (2009). The OCC Model Revisited. In D. Reichardt (Ed.), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Emotion and Computing - Current Research and Future Impact. Paderborn, Germany. PDF

Dastani, M.M. & Steunebrink, B.R. (2009). Modularity in BDI-based Agent Programming Languages. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2009), Milan, Italy. PDF

Steunebrink, B.R., Dastani, M.M. & Meyer, J-J.Ch. (2008). A Formal Model of Emotions: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects. In G. Mali, C.D. Spyropoulos, N. Fakotakis & N. Avouris (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'08) (pp. 256-260). Greece/Amsterdam: Patras / IOS Press. PDF

Steunebrink, B.R., Vergunst, N.L., Mol, C.P., Dignum, F.P.M., Dastani, M.M. & Meyer, J-J.Ch. (2008). A Generic Architecture for a Companion Robot. In J. Filipe, J.A. Cetto & J.-L Ferrier (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO'08) (pp. 315-321). Madeira, Portugal: Funchal. PDF

Dastani, M.M., Mol, C.P. & Steunebrink, B.R. (2008). Modularity in Agent Programming Languages: An Illustration in Extended 2APL. UU-CS (Int. rep. 2008-022). UU WINFI Informatica en Informatiekunde. PDF

Dastani, M.M., Mol, C.P. & Steunebrink, B.R. (2008). Modularity in Agent Programming Languages: An Illustration in Extended 2APL. In Proceedings of the 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2008). Hanoi, Vietnam. PDF

Dignum, F.P.M., Steunebrink, B.R., Vergunst, N.L., Mol, C.P. & Meyer, J-J.Ch. (2008). Theory and Practice of Social Reasoning, Experiences with the iCat. In B. Löwe (Ed.), AISB2008-LSIR. Aberdeen.

Steunebrink, B.R., Dastani, M.M. & Meyer, J-J.Ch. (2007). A Logic of Emotions for Intelligent Agents. In R.C. Holte & A.E. Howe (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'07) (pp. 142-147). Vancouver, Canada: AAAI Press. PDF

Steunebrink, B.R., Dastani, M.M. & Meyer, J-J.Ch. (2007). Emotions as Heurisics for Rational Agents. UU-CS (Int. rep. 2007-006). UU WINFI Informatica en Informatiekunde. PDF

Vergunst, N.L., Steunebrink, B.R., Dastani, M.M. & Meyer, J-J.Ch. (2007). Towards Programming Multimodal Dialogues. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Communication between Human and Artificial Agents (CHAA'07) (pp. 342-345). Fremont, California, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press. PDF

Vergunst, N.L., Steunebrink, B.R., Dastani, M.M. & Meyer, J-J.Ch. (2007). Towards Programming Multimodal Dialogues. In M.M. Dastani & E.D. de Jong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2007) (pp. 407-408). Utrecht, The Netherlands. PDF

Steunebrink, B.R., Dastani, M.M. & Meyer, J-J.Ch. (2007). Towards a Quantitative Model of Emotions for Intelligent Agents. In D. Reichardt & P. Levi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Emotion and Computing - Current Research and Future Impact. Osnabrück, Germany. PDF

Steunebrink, B.R. (2006). A Layered Architecture for Affective Agents. Master's Thesis (Int. rep. INF/SCR-2005-054). Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Steunebrink, B.R., Dastani, M.M. & Meyer, J-J.Ch. (2006). Emotions as Heuristics in Multi-Agent Systems. In D. Reinhardt, P. Levi & J.-J.Ch. Meyer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Emotion and Computing - Current Research and Future Impact (pp. 15-18). PDF