Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Rationale and Hypotheses; 1.3 Framework; 1.4 Questions and Objectives; 1.5 Dissertation Structure; 1.6 Assumptions, Limitations, and Scope; 2 Models; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Agents; 2.3 The Emotional Agent; 2.4 Technological Portrait; 2.5 On Appraisal; 2.6 The Exploitation of Models; 2.7 Self-Adaptive Systems; 2.8 Conclusions; 3 State of the Art; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 General Overview; 3.3 Trends in Biological Emotion Research; 3.3.1 Research on the Neural Bases of Emotion

3.3.2 Psychology and Emotion Research3.4 Trends in Artificial Emotion Research; 3.4.1 Emotion in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; 3.4.2 Emotion and Cognitive Science; 3.5 Emotion Modeling; 3.6 Discussion; 4 Principles for Computational Emotion ; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The State of the Challenge; 4.3 Conceptualization of Artificial Emotion; 4.3.1 The Cognitive Approach of Emotion; 4.3.2 Emotion and Abstractions; 4.3.3 Computational-Emotion and Computational-Feeling; 4.4 Appraisal and Computational Emotion; 4.4.1 Computational Appraisal; 4.4.2 Computational Process of Appraisal

4.4.3 Measurement of Compliance4.5 Perception; 4.6 Autobiographical-Self; 4.6.1 The Autobiographical Knowledge; 4.6.2 Relationships Between Memories and Self; 4.6.3 Consequences of Relationships Between Memories and Self; 4.6.4 Self-Memory System (SMS); 4.6.5 Grounds of the Self; 4.7 Representation and Computational Feeling; 4.7.1 The Inner-Environment; 4.7.2 Grounds for Emotion and Feeling; 4.8 Architectural Theoretical Foundations; 4.9 Alertness, Arousal and Action Readiness; 4.10 Discussion; 5 A Model of Computational Emotion; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Previous Works; 5.3 Thesis

5.4 Emotional Agent AGSys5.4.1 Conceptualization of ESys; 5.4.2 External Environment; 5.4.3 Inner Environment; 5.4.4 Ongoing Interaction Between Environments; 5.5 Principles of Perception in AGSys; 5.5.1 The Inner-Object; 5.5.2 The Process of Perception; 5.5.3 Principles for Emotion Perception; 5.5.4 Principles and Baselines for Representation; 5.5.5 Summarized Problem; 5.6 The Inner Agent ESys; 5.6.1 The Appraisal; 5.6.2 The Emotional Goals; 5.6.3 Valenced Reactions; 5.7 Feeling in AGSys; 5.7.1 The Problem of Representation in AGSys; 5.7.2 Regarding the Problem of Autonomy in AGSys

5.7.3 The R-Loop5.7.4 MEP Model; 5.8 Architectural Foundations; 5.8.1 The Environments of AGSys; 5.8.2 AGSys
ESys Reciprocal Actions; 5.8.3 Essential Questions Regarding the Appraisal; 5.8.4 Questions About Reconfiguration; 5.8.5 About Agency; 5.8.6 Generalization; 5.9 Conclusions; 6 Discussion; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Approach; 6.3 Emotion Based Autonomy; 6.4 Adaptive Systems; 6.5 What Is Artificial Emotion; 6.6 Conclusion; 7 Future Works; 7.1 The Approach; 7.2 Emotion Research; Glossary ; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; I; K; M; P; R; S; T; V; Declaration ; References.