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ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Taxonomy in Alife. Measures of Similarity for Complex Artificial Organisms
In this paper a formal approach to construction of a similarity measure for complex creatures is presented. The simulation model is described, and a Framsticks agent is expressed i...
Maciej Komosinski, Marek Kubiak
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Passing the ALife Test: Activity Statistics Classify Evolution in Geb as Unbounded
Bedau and Packard’s evolutionary activity statistics [1, 2] are used to classify the evolutionary dynamics in Geb [3, 4], a system designed to verify and extend theories behind t...
Alastair Channon
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language
Abstract. Recent work in the field of computational evolutionary linguistics suggests that the dynamics arising from the cultural evolution of language can explain the emergence o...
Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Formal Description of Autopoiesis Based on the Theory of Category
Since the concept of autopoiesis was proposed as a model of minimal living systems by Maturana and Varela, and applied to social systems by Luhmann, there has been only a few math...
Tatsuya Nomura
ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
I Like What I Know: How Recognition-Based Decisions Can Structure the Environment
Cognitive mechanisms are shaped by evolution to match their environments. But through their use, these mechanisms exert a shaping force on their surroundings as well. Here we explo...
Peter M. Todd, Simon Kirby