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ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Minimal Agency Detection of Embodied Agents
Agency detection is studied in a simple simulated model with embodied agents. Psychological experiments such as double TV-monitor experiments and perceptual crossing show the centr...
Hiroyuki Iizuka, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Modeling Decentralized Organizational Change in Honeybee Societies
Multi-agent organizations in dynamic environments, need to have the ability to adapt to environmental changes to ensure a continuation of proper functioning. Such adaptations can b...
Mark Hoogendoorn, Martijn C. Schut, Jan Treur
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Catalysis by Self-Assembled Structures in Emergent Reaction Networks
We introduce a new variant of the dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) model that includes the possibility of dynamically forming and breaking strong bonds. The emergent reaction ki...
Gianluca Gazzola, Andrew Buchanan, Norman H. Packa...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Autonomy: A Review and a Reappraisal
Tom Froese, Nathaniel Virgo, Eduardo Izquierdo
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Adapting to Your Body
Abstract. This paper investigates the processes used by an evolved, embodied simulated agent to adapt to large disruptive changes in its sensor morphology, whilst maintaining perfo...
Peter Fine, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Eduardo Izquierd...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Neural Uncertainty and Sensorimotor Robustness
Real organisms live in a world full of uncertain situations and have evolved cognitive mechanisms to cope with problems based on actions and perceptions which are not always reliab...
Jose A. Fernandez-Leon, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Computational System for Investigating Chemotaxis-Based Cell Aggregation
Abstract. We have developed a software system that simulates chemotaxis-based cell aggregation in 2D. The model implemented within the system consists of such cell behaviors as che...
Manolya Eyiyurekli, Peter I. Lelkes, David E. Bree...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Increasing Complexity Can Increase Stability in a Self-Regulating Ecosystem
A long standing debate within ecology is to what extent ecosystem complexity and stability are related. Landmark theoretical studies claimed that the more complex an ecosystem, the...
James Dyke, Jamie McDonald-Gibson, Ezequiel A. Di ...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Protolanguages That Are Semi-holophrastic
There is an ongoing debate about whether the words in the first languages spoken by humans expressed single concepts or complex holophrases. A computer model was used to investigat...
Mike Dowman
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Building Virtual Ecosystems from Artificial Chemistry
Abstract. This paper adopts an interdisciplinary view of the significant elements of ecosystems and the methods by which these might be simulated to explore theoretical issues of r...
Alan Dorin, Kevin B. Korb