Objectives

Anticipatory behavior is a mechanism, or a behavior, that does not only depend on the past and present but also on predictions, expectations, or beliefs about the future.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers that are interested in such anticipatory mechanisms and essentially anticipatory adaptive behavior. It is aimed for an interdisciplinary gathering that brings together researchers from various research areas including neuroscience, machine learning, artificial intelligence, control, vision research, and cognitive psychology so as to discuss and evaluate the different influences that predictions, expectations, goals, desires, or intentions can have on actual behavior, including influences on attention, action decision making and control, as well as learning.
After two previous successful gatherings during SAB 2002, resulting in the Springer-Verlag LNCS 2684 State-of-the-Art survey named after the workshop, and during SAB2004, ABiALS 2006 will build on the gathered insights and continue to explore anticipatory influences on behavior and learning.

Previous work on anticipatory behavior has concentrated more on the learning of models of environments, actuators, and environment dynamics. Up to now though, exploitation of the model has been done mainly to show that exploitation is possible or that an appropriate model exists in the first place. Only very few applications exist that show the utility of the model for the simulation of anticipatory processes and consequent adaptive behavior. However, the exploitation of the model and the interaction of learning and behavior by the means of the model is the most promising and important area for future research.

Essential Questions