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ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
New Models for Old Questions: Evolutionary Robotics and the 'A Not B' Error
Abstract. In psychology the ‘A not B’ error, whereby infants perseverate in reaching to the location where a toy was previously hidden after it has been moved to a new location...
Rachel Wood, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Multi-level Selection in the Emergence of Language Systematicity
Language can be viewed as a complex adaptive system which is continuously shaped and reshaped by the actions of its users as they try to solve communicative problems. To maintain c...
Luc Steels, Remi van Trijp, Pieter Wellens
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Neuroevolution of Agents Capable of Reactive and Deliberative Behaviours in Novel and Dynamic Environments
Both reactive and deliberative qualities are essential for a good action selection mechanism. We present a model that embodies a hybrid of two very different neural network archit...
Edward Robinson, Timothy Ellis, Alastair Channon
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Measuring Entropy in Embodied Neural Agents with Homeostasic Units: A Link Between Complexity and Cybernetics
Abstract. We present a model of a recurrent neural network with homeostasic units, embodied in a minimalist articulated agent with a single link and joint. The configuration of th...
Jorge Simão
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Investigating the Evolution of Cooperative Behaviour in a Minimally Spatial Model
It is well known that the evolution of cooperative behaviour is dependant upon certain environmental conditions. One such condition that has been extensively studied is the use of ...
Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Individual Selection for Cooperative Group Formation
It is well known that certain environmental conditions, such as a spatially structured population, can promote the evolution of cooperative traits. However, such conditions are usu...
Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Wat...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Institutional Robotics
Abstract. Pioneer approaches to Artificial Intelligence have traditionally neglected, in a chronological sequence, the agent body, the world where the agent is situated, and the o...
Porfírio Silva, Pedro U. Lima
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
On the Adaptive Disadvantage of Lamarckianism in Rapidly Changing Environments
Using a simple simulation model of evolution and learning this paper provides some evolutionary arguments on why Lamarckianlike inheritance - direct transfer of lifetime learning r...
Ingo Paenke, Bernhard Sendhoff, Jon Rowe, Chrisant...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Controlling an Anthropomimetic Robot: A Preliminary Investigation
The human body has a complex skeleton, giving a very high number of degrees of freedom, and is actuated by a large number of elastic elements muscles and tendons. As a consequence,...
Hugo Gravato Marques, Richard Newcombe, Owen Holla...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Detecting Non-trivial Computation in Complex Dynamics
Abstract. We quantify the local information dynamics at each spatiotemporal point in a complex system in terms of each element of computation: information storage, transfer and mod...
Joseph T. Lizier, Mikhail Prokopenko, Albert Y. Zo...