The main objective of this article is to capitalise on many years of research, and of practice, relating to the use of introspection in a research context, and thus to provide an initial outline description of introspection, while developing an introspection of introspection. After a description of the context of this research, I define the institutional conditions which would enable the renewa...

Two main questions about introspection are addressed: whether it exists, and whether it is a reliable source of self-knowledge. Most philosophers have assumed that the answers to both questions are positive, whereas an increasing number of cognitive scientists take the view that introspection is either nonexistent (with self-attributions of mental states being made on the same sort of interpret...

According to Adam Adam Smith (1790), human selfishness can be restrained by introspection. We test the effect of introspection on people’s willingness to cooperate in a public good game. Drawing on the concept of identity utility (George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton, 2000), we show theoretically that introspection may enhance cooperation by increasing the relative cost of deviating from one...

Memory introspection can be a powerful tool for analyzing contents of a system’s memory for any malicious code. Current approaches based on memory introspection have focused on Virtual Machines and using a privileged software entity, such as a hypervisor, to perform the introspection. Such software-based introspection, however, is susceptible to variety of attacks that may compromise the hyperv...

The main thesis is that Introspection is recommended for the development of anthropic AI. Human-like AI, distinct from rational AI, would suit robots for care for the elderly and for other tasks that require interaction with naïve humans. “Anthropic AI” is a sub-type of human-like AI, aiming for the pre-cultured, universal intelligence that is available to healthy humans regardless of time and ...

Storage consolidation due to server virtualization puts stringent new requirements on Storage Array (SA) performance. Virtualized workloads require new performance optimizations that cannot be totally addressed by merely using expensive hardware such as SSDs. This position paper presents Virtual Machine Disk Image (VMDI) introspection—a key technique for implementing a variety of virtualization...

Storage consolidation due to server virtualization puts stringent new requirements on Storage Array (SA) performance. Virtualized workloads require new performance optimizations that cannot be totally addressed by merely using expensive hardware such as SSDs. This position paper presents Virtual Machine Disk Image (VMDI) introspection—a key technique for implementing a variety of virtualization...

Introspection mechanisms are employed in agent architectures to improve agent performance. However, there is currently no approach to introspection that makes automatic adjustments at multiple levels in the implemented agent system. We introduce our novel multi-level introspection framework that can be used to automatically adjust architectural configurations based on the introspection results ...