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EPIA
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Modelling Agent Societies: Co-ordination Frameworks and Institutions
Organisations can be defined as a set of entities regulated by mechanisms of social order and created by more or less autonomous actors to achieve common goals. Multi-agent systems...
Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum
EPIA
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Situation Calculus as Hybrid Logic: First Steps
Abstract. The situation calculus, originally conceived by John McCarthy, is one of the main representation languages in artificial intelligence. The original papers introducing th...
Patrick Blackburn, Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx
EPIA
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Evolving Multi-agent Viewpoints - an Architecture
Abstract. We present an approach to agents that can reason, react to the environment and are able to update their own knowledge as a result of new incoming information. Each agents...
Pierangelo Dell'Acqua, João Alexandre Leite...
EPIA
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Global Hull Consistency with Local Search for Continuous Constraint Solving
This paper addresses constraint solving over continuous domains in the context of decision making, and discusses the trade-off between precision in the definition of the solution s...
Jorge Cruz, Pedro Barahona
EPIA
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Permissive Belief Revision
Abstract. We propose a new operation of belief revision, called permissive belief revision. The underlying idea of permissive belief revision is to replace the beliefs that are aba...
Maria R. Cravo, João P. Cachopo, Ana C. Cac...
ECAL
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Emergent Syntax: The Unremitting Value of Computational Modeling for Understanding the Origins of Complex Language
Abstract. In this paper we explore the similarities between a mathematical model of language evolution and several A-life simulations. We argue that the mathematical model makes so...
Willem H. Zuidema
ECAL
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Evolving Lives: The Individual Historical Dimension in Evolution
Some benefits of a dialogue between evolutionary robotics and developmental ethology are presented with discussion of how developmental models might inform approaches to evolution...
Rachel Wood
ECAL
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Symbiotic Composition and Evolvability
Several of the Major Transitions in natural evolution, such as the symbiogenic origin of eukaryotes from prokaryotes, share the feature that existing entities became the components...
Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack
ECAL
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
A Visually-Based Evolvable Control Architecture for Agents in Interactive Entertainment Applications
A visually-based evolvable control architecture for agents in interactive entertainment applications is presented. Agents process images of their local surroundings according to ev...
Andrew Vardy