How to make swarms open-ended? Evolving collective intelligence through a constricted exploration of adjacent possibles

O Witkowski, T Ikegami - Artificial life, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
We propose an approach to open-ended evolution via the simulation of swarm dynamics. In
nature, swarms possess remarkable properties, which allow many organisms, from …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of complex niche-constructing behaviors and ecological inheritance of adaptive structures in a physically grounded environment

N Chiba, R Suzuki, T Arita - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Niche construction is a process in which organisms modify the selection pressures on
themselves and others through their ecological activities, and ecological inheritance is the …