Genetic team composition and level of selection in the evolution of cooperation

M Waibel, L Keller, D Floreano - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In cooperative multiagent systems, agents interact to solve tasks. Global dynamics of
multiagent teams result from local agent interactions, and are complex and difficult to predict …

Modeling the emergence of language as an embodied collective cognitive activity

E Hutchins, CM Johnson - Topics in Cognitive Science, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Two decades of attempts to model the emergence of language as a collective cognitive
activity have demonstrated a number of principles that might have been part of the historical …

Evolution of implicit and explicit communication in mobile robots

J de Greeff, S Nolfi - Evolution of communication and language in …, 2009 - Springer
This work investigates the conditions in which a population of embodied agents evolved for
the ability to display coordinated/cooperative skills can develop an ability to communicate …

What can mathematical, computational, and robotic models tell us about the origins of syntax?

H Jäger, L Steels, A Baronchelli, T Briscoe… - 2009 - direct.mit.edu
This working group staked out the landscape of mathematical and computational modeling
approaches to language evolution. The authors attempt both to provide a survey of existing …

On Peirce's Pragmatic Notion of Semiosis—A Contribution for the Design of Meaning Machines

J Queiroz, F Merrell - Minds and Machines, 2009 - Springer
How to model meaning processes (semiosis) in artificial semiotic systems? Once all
computer simulation becomes tantamount to theoretical simulation, involving …

An investigation of the evolutionary origin of reciprocal communication using simulated autonomous agents

E Tuci - Biological Cybernetics, 2009 - Springer
How does communication originates in a population of originally non-communicating
individuals? Providing an answer to this question from a neo-Darwinian epistemological …

Modeling the formation of language in embodied agents: Methods and open challenges

L Steels - Evolution of Communication and Language in …, 2009 - Springer
This chapter introduces the cultural approach towards the question how a symbolic
communication system could form in a population of agents. This approach emphasises the …

Evolving communication in embodied agents: Theory, methods, and evaluation

M Mirolli, S Nolfi - Evolution of Communication and Language in …, 2009 - Springer
In this chapter we introduce the area of research that attempts to study the evolution of
communication in embodied agents through adaptive techniques, such us artificial …

A constructivist approach to robot language learning via simulated babbling and holophrase extraction

J Saunders, C Lyon, F Forster… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is thought that meaning may be grounded in early childhood language learning via the
physical and social interaction of the infant with those around him or her, and that the …

Modeling the formation of language: Embodied experiments

L Steels - Evolution of Communication and Language in …, 2009 - Springer
This chapter gives an overview of different experiments that have been performed to
demonstrate how a symbolic communication system, including its underlying ontology, can …