152 Copyright © 2015, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 6 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7278-9.ch006 M.G. Sánchez-Escribano Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Carlos Herrera Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Ricardo Sanz Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain The Exploitation of Models in Artifcial Emotions ABSTRACT Cognitive processes might be seen as reciprocal items and they are usually characterized by multiple feedback cycles. Emotions constitute one major source of feedback loops to assure the maintenance of well-being, providing cognitive processes with quantifable meaning. This suggests the exploitation of models to improve the adaptation under value-based protocols. Emotion is not an isolated efect of stimuli, but it is the set of several efects of the stimuli and the relationships among them. This chapter proposes a study of the exploitation of models in artifcial emotions, pointing out relationships as part of the model as well as the model exploitation method. INTRODUCTION The functional operation of biological emotion inspires the integration of similar models in arti- ficial systems. The objective is to improve some sectors of its self-evaluation capabilities to exploit this knowledge to improve its control concerning the improvement of its adaptiveness. Initially, the key facet is the exploration of what emotion solves inside of biological agents in the search of relevant analogies for the artificial systems. The objective should not be a mirror image of the biological phenomenon, but an adapted equivalence for the needs of the artificial agents. On top of that, it would be desirable to explain some sectors of the real phenomenon on the basis of this theory, by means of a well-defined analogy between the artificial model and real emotion. However, it should go far beyond these solu- tions to find what emotions may solve in artificial agents. The real influence of emotion over the system comes from the inner perspective of the