Symbolic Anomaly Detection and Assessment Using Growing Neural Gas

Metacognitive architectures provide one solution to the brittleness problem for agents operating in complex, changing environments. The Metacognitive Loop, in which a system notes an anomaly, assesses the problem and guides a solution, is one form of such an architecture. This paper extends prior work on implementing the note phase of this process in symbolic planning domains using the A-distance. This extension uses a growing neural gas algorithm to construct a network which represents various normal and anomalous states. Testing shows that this technique allows for improved detection of anomalies in the note phase as well as categorization of anomalies by severity and type in the assess phase.