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After three decades of research, the concept of emotion as an aspect of initelligence in artificial systems, is still unclear. Most of emotion models in AI are aimed to simulate the emotional states of human in differenct levels of abstraction and functionality. Therefore, the concept of emotions in artificial systems is completely dependent on human being’s emotional states and can not be used as a general tool for improving the intellingence of artificial systems. In this thesis, we have tried to show that defining emotion in a more abstract level can expand the domain of its appications in AI. According to some existing theories about emotions, we modeled emotions as local semi-soloutions... 

Developing algorithms in engineering and decision making systems based on psychological and biological mechanisms is a promising area of research. The challenging part of any psychological or biological system development is its learning necessity to adapt itself to random incidents, inherent in the environment. Goals, as defined in engineering problems, are the performance functions that continuously evaluate the responses of environment. They have a duty of directing the learning system to the desirable state. If the environment is corrupted by a variety of disturbances that cannot be predicted from the outset, adapting the parameter of learning agent is inevitable. In this work, we... 

In this research, an emotion-based intelligent guidance planning for a flapping vehicle is proposed. It utilizes different sciences including artificial intelligence, neural, fuzzy and psychology accompanied by flight dynamics and modeling. The proposed system enables the robot to make emotion, learn and make decision based on its given personality. The decision making is related to the path planning and how moving from the current position to the designed one. In other words, the robot, at each moment, knows what to do and how to do. Therefore, guidance commands of the flying robot are as outputs of the system. In the present research, the control system is assumed ideal. The introduced... 

This study was a mixed-method research into the impact of emotions on the professional identities of teachers. The researcher followed Zembylas (2005a, 2005b) in conducting this study following the argument that politics and disciplinary power affect every aspect of teachers` life, hence their emotions and professional identities. Foucault (1975, 1984) was the source of theoretical underpinning in this study. The researcher used an open written interview, an attitudinal questionnaire, and a written narrative inquiry to collect the required data. Ten English language teachers (8 English Institute teachers, 2 public school teachers) took part in the first phase. One-hundred teachers from both...