The existence of emotion and cognition as two interacting systems, both with important roles
in decision-making, has been recently advocated by neurophysiological research (LeDoux …

The rehabilitation and appreciation of the emotional as a key element for successful coping
with nondeterministic, highly dynamic environments by providing a flexible and adaptive …

This paper describes the robot head MEXI which is able to show artificial emotions by its
facial expressions and speech output. The focus of this paper is on MEXIs software …

This chapter starts by addressing why one might want to consider emotions in computer
programs (and more generally, in constructed complex systems). Drawing upon …

This paper takes an overtly anticipatory stance to the understanding of animat learning and
behavior. It analyses four major animal learning theories and attempts to identify the …

In this paper, we tackle the problem of the control of a complex system with techniques
inspired from the sciences of the living. From the example of a multi-agent simulation, we …