Fritz Heckel

Was thinking about the equation for the expressiveness of our interface that Dr. K came up with, and it seems like pursuing this a little further could provide a nice comparison of the complexity of graphically editing a FSM vs. graphically editing a subsumption architecture.

As I think about it, while we typically talk about the number of transitions between states as being the big issue, the complexity of the individual states of an equivalent HFSM is going to be bad. The inhibition/resolution aspect of subsumption makes this a non-issue.

Dr. K asked what the options are generally: my quick answer was that the last (non-classical planning) approach is connectionist. ANNs have their big problems, but there may be a case to be made for Maes nets. So this should probably be checked out at some point.

I also found, with some quick googling, this white paper.

Anyway, things to think about, and relevant both to chapter 2 and the journal paper.