How do communities establish shared communication systems? The Common Knowledge
view assumes that symbolic conventions develop through the accumulation of common …

What is it for a sound or gesture to have a meaning, and how does it come to have one? In
this paper, a range of simulations are used to extend the tradition of theories of meaning as …

This thesis proposes a framework adopting the self-organization theory for the study of
language evolution. Self-organization explains collective behaviors and evolution with the …

Ce sont les phénomènes de polysémie et de synonymie partielle qui rendent nécessaire
l'utilisation du continu dans la modélisation en sémantique lexicale. Un modèle …

The goal of philosophy of information is to understand what information is, how it operates,
and how to put it to work. But unlike 'information'in the technical sense of information theory …

Human language serves a number of different functions, one of the most prominent being
communicating about relevant features of the environment. From the point of view of the …

This paper examines the effect of the addition of cultural learning to a population of agents.
Experiments are undertaken using an artificial life simulator capable of simulating …

Sequential decision tasks represent a difficult class of problem where perfect solutions are
often not available in advance. This paper presents a set of experiments involving …

The present work explores how executive functions can be implemented in neural networks.
Computational models such as neural networks allow researchers to develop more …

This paper examines a new approach to the evolution of blackjack strategies, that of cultural
learning. Many traditional machine learning approaches have concentrated on …