This chapter focuses on recent studies on the origins and evolution of language which have
used multiple robot systems as their primary platform. After presenting some theoretical …

In this paper, we present the results of an experiment in which a collection of simulated
robots that have been evolved for the ability to solve a collective navigation problem develop …

Tremendous progress has been made recently on the fascinating question of the origins and
evolution of language (see eg (55),(7),(9),(31)). There is no widely accepted complete theory …

In this work, we propose a computational approach to the triadic model of Peircean semiosis
(meaning processes). We investigate theoretical constraints about the feasibility of simulated …

Animals use diverse forms of communication, from sound signals to body postures. Recent
ethological studies have reported a unique syntactic communication of a songbird, the …

In the field of ethological studies many efforts of researchers are devoted to understand how
animals communicate and what is the role of communication from an evolutionary and …

'Classical'connectionist models of development (eg, Elman, Bates, Johnson, Karmiloff-Smith,
Parisi, and Plunkett, 1996) tend to view behavioural change in the individual as due only to …

Population learning can be described as the iterative Darwinian process of fitness-based
selection and genetic transfer of information leading to populations of higher fitness and is …

The thesis presents a multi-agent computational model to explore a key question in
language emergence, ie, whether syntactic abilities result from innate, species-specific …

This chapter describes synthetic ethology, a scientific methodology in which we construct
synthetic worlds in which synthetic agents evolve and become coupled to their environment …