Failsafe aspects of a decision unit inspired by cognitive sciences - the Id without Ego and Super-Ego

Author

Deutsch, Tobias ; Tmej, Anna ; Muchitsch, Clemens ; Zucker, Gerhard ; Riediger, Christiane ; Lang, Roland

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Technol., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna

fYear

2009

fDate

21-23 May 2009

Firstpage

376

Lastpage

382

Abstract

An approach to deal with increasing complexity in control tasks is used the human mind as an archetype for a reasoning unit. In this article, psychoanalysis is used as theoretical framework for the described model. The main elements are Id, Ego, and Super-Ego. This article deals with fail-safe aspects of such a complex architecture. What will happen if one or even two of the main elements fail to operate. The technical architecture presented divides the model into two parts-one fail-safe part with the Id and selected elements of the Ego and the other one with the rest of the Ego and the Super-Ego. The advantage in doing so is that while the latter one is able to perform complex tasks, the first one guarantees that-in case of an error-the system will not fail totally.

Keywords

psychology; cognitive sciences; decision unit; failsafe aspects; psychoanalysis; reasoning unit; Artificial intelligence; Brain; Decision making; Degradation; Electronic mail; Humans; Machine intelligence; Psychology; Robustness; Stability; artificial intelligence; bionic; decision making; psychoanalysis; reasoning unit;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human System Interactions, 2009. HSI '09. 2nd Conference on

Conference_Location

Catania

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3959-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3960-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HSI.2009.5091009

Filename

5091009