EMOTION Vectors: Enabling Self-Organizing Production Through Efficient Information Processing in Distributed Cognitive Systems

Self-organizing production requires interaction mechanisms that enable actors to successfully deal with different, new and undescribed situations. This demands comprehensive recognition and processing of context, target, and status information. A challenge arising from the complexity of information to be processed lies in the slowdown in processing speeds. One solution is the realization of vectors that represent high-dimensional and specific information in low-dimensional and standardized forms. Modelled upon human emotions as expressions of the results of previous evaluation processes, these are referred to as EMOTION vectors. In systems of distributed cognition, they convey the information required for effective cooperation of actors.