ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
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...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
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...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
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...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
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,...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
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...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
The Bare Bones language is a programming language with a minimal set of operations that exhibits universal computation. We present a conceptual framework, Chemical Bare Bones, to c...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
Current biological theory has no commonly accepted view on the phenomenon of aging. On the one hand it is considered as an inescapable degradation immanent to complex biological sy...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. Artificial agents controlled by dynamic recurrent node networks with fixed weights are evolved to search for food and associate it with one of two different temperatur...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
We examine the practical problem of a mobile autonomous robot performing a long-duration survey task, during which it must recharge its batteries periodically. We present a scalabl...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
In this paper we describe a model in which artificial evolution is employed to design neural mechanisms that control the motion of two autonomous robots required to communicate th...