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ALIFE
2005
13 years 4 months ago
New Robotics: Design Principles for Intelligent Systems
New Robotics designates an approach to robotics that, in contrast to traditional robotics, employs ideas and principles from biology. While in the traditional approach there are g...
Rolf Pfeifer, Fumiya Iida, Josh C. Bongard
ALIFE
2005
13 years 4 months ago
Evolutionary Robotics: A New Scientific Tool for Studying Cognition
Inman Harvey, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Rachel Wood, M...
ALIFE
2005
13 years 4 months ago
Self-Organizing Hierarchies in Sensor and Communication Networks
We consider a hierarchical multicellular sensing and communication network, embedded in an ageless aerospace vehicle, that is expected to detect and react to multiple impacts and d...
Mikhail Prokopenko, Peter Wang, Philip Valencia, D...
ALIFE
2005
13 years 4 months ago
Agency in Natural and Artificial Systems
We analyze the conditions for agency in natural and artificial systems. In the case of basic (natural) autonomous systems, self-construction and activity in the environment are two...
Alvaro Moreno, Arantza Etxeberria
ALIFE
2005
13 years 4 months ago
State Aggregation and Population Dynamics in Linear Systems
We consider complex systems that are composed of many interacting elements, evolving under some dynamics. We are interested in characterizing the ways in which these elements may b...
Jonathan E. Rowe, Michael D. Vose, Alden H. Wright
ALIFE
2005
13 years 4 months ago
Levels of Description: A Novel Approach to Dynamical Hierarchies
We present a novel formal interpretation of dynamical hierarchies based on information theory, in which each level is a near-state-determined system, and levels are related to one ...
Simon McGregor, Chrisantha Fernando
ALIFE
2005
13 years 4 months ago
Flexible Couplings: Diffusing Neuromodulators and Adaptive Robotics
Recent years have seen the discovery of freely diffusing gaseous neurotransmitters, such as nitric oxide (NO), in biological nervous systems. A type of artificial neural network (A...
Andrew Philippides, Phil Husbands, Tom Smith, Mich...
ALIFE
2005
13 years 4 months ago
Material Representations: From the Genetic Code to the Evolution of Cellular Automata
We present a new definition of the concept of representation for cognitive science that is based on a study of the origin of structures that are used to store memory in evolving sy...
Luis Mateus Rocha, Wim Hordijk
ALIFE
2005
13 years 4 months ago
A Gene Network Model for Developing Cell Lineages
Biological development is a remarkably complex process. A single cell, in an appropriate environment, contains sufficient information to generate a variety of differentiated cell ...
Nicholas Geard, Janet Wiles