Editing Behavior (section)

{{Short description|Actions by entities within a system}}
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{{Use American English|date=August 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}

'''Behavior''' ([[American English]]) or '''behaviour''' ([[British English]]) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by [[Individual|individuals]], [[organism]]s, [[systems]] or [[Artificial intelligence|artificial entities]] in some environment. These systems can include other systems or organisms as well as the inanimate physical environment. It is the computed response of the system or organism to various stimuli or inputs, whether internal or external, [[conscious]] or [[subconscious]], overt or covert, and [[voluntary action|voluntary]] or [[Volition (psychology)|involuntary]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Elizabeth A. Minton, Lynn R. Khale|title=Belief Systems, Religion, and Behavioral Economics|year=2014|location=New York|publisher=Business Expert Press LLC|isbn=978-1-60649-704-3}}</ref> While some behavior is produced in response to an organism's environment (extrinsic motivation), behavior can also be the product of intrinsic motivation, also referred to as "agency" or "free will".

Taking a [[behavior informatics]] perspective, a behavior consists of actor, operation, interactions, and their properties. This can be represented as a behavior [[Euclidean vector|vector]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Cao|first=Longbing|year=2010|title=In-depth Behavior Understanding and Use: the Behavior Informatics Approach|journal=Information Science|volume=180|issue=17|pages=3067–3085|doi=10.1016/j.ins.2010.03.025|arxiv=2007.15516|s2cid=7400761}}</ref>