"complex goal" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a goal or objective that is challenging and involves multiple steps or components. Example: "My ultimate dream is to climb Mount Everest, but before I can achieve this complex goal, I need to improve my physical fitness, save up enough money, and obtain the necessary permits and equipment."
So how do you get a large number of them to act together to accomplish a complex goal?
Software architectures for service robots have to support flexible combinations of basic algorithms to form complex goal directed behaviors.
And many managers are tasked with the complex goal of "managing diversity" – which can mean anything from ensuring equal employment opportunity compliance, to instituting cultural sensitivity training programs, to focusing on the recruitment and retention of minorities and women.
When faced with a long to-do list or a complex goal, most people are drawn to the tasks or subgoals with a short completion window and more immediate payoff.
The term "aging in place" has become a catch phrase for describing this complex goal, and there is increasing support among health care professionals and policy makers for keeping elders out of nursing homes and in their communities with appropriate services.
The intent of this article is to review: (1) the historical perspectives on the parietal lobe, particularly the aIPS; (2) extend and update these perspectives based on recent empirical data; and (3) discuss the potential implications of the revised functionality of the aIPS in relationship to complex goal oriented behavior and social interaction.
If there is a hole in Barrat's dark argument, it is in his glib presumption that if a robot is smart enough to play chess, it might also "want to build a spaceship"—and that tendencies toward self-preservation and resource acquisition are inherent in any sufficiently complex, goal-driven system.
This paper describes a powerful extension of this approach for handling complex goals for reactive agents.
Attempting to achieve complex goals in fast-moving and unpredictable environments is humbling.
She notes that we can have complex goals, but the experience has to be "beautiful, seemless, and elegant".
Two composition theorems relate complex controls to complex goals, and provide the key to using standard knowledge-based deliberation techniques to generate complex controllers.
