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ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
From Artificial Societies to New Social Science Theory
We identify two distinct themes in social science modelling. One, more specific, approach is that of social simulation which addresses how behaviour of many actors can lead to emer...
Eric Silverman, John Bryden
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Group Size Effects on the Emergence of Compositional Structures in Language
This paper presents computer simulations which investigate the effect that different group sizes have on the emergence of compositional structures in languages. The simulations are...
Paul Vogt
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Artificial Ecosystem Selection for Evolutionary Optimisation
Abstract. Artificial selection of microbial ecosystems for their collective function has been shown to be effective in laboratory experiments. In previous work, we used evolutionar...
Hywel T. P. Williams, Timothy M. Lenton
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Evolution of Cooperation in a Population of Selfish Adaptive Agents
Often the selfish and strong are believed to be favored by natural selection, even though cooperative interactions thrive at all levels of organization in living systems. Recent em...
Jorge M. Pacheco, Tom Lenaerts, Francisco C. Santo...
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Genotype Reuse More Important than Genotype Size in Evolvability of Embodied Neural Networks
odel of Embodiment on Abstract Systems: from Hierarchy to Heterarchy Kohei Nakajima, Soya Shinkai, Takashi Ikegami A Behavior-Based Model of the Hydra, Phylum Cnidaria Malin Aktius...
Chad W. Seys, Randall D. Beer
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Minimal Agency Detection of Embodied Agents
Agency detection is studied in a simple simulated model with embodied agents. Psychological experiments such as double TV-monitor experiments and perceptual crossing show the centr...
Hiroyuki Iizuka, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Modeling Decentralized Organizational Change in Honeybee Societies
Multi-agent organizations in dynamic environments, need to have the ability to adapt to environmental changes to ensure a continuation of proper functioning. Such adaptations can b...
Mark Hoogendoorn, Martijn C. Schut, Jan Treur
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Catalysis by Self-Assembled Structures in Emergent Reaction Networks
We introduce a new variant of the dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) model that includes the possibility of dynamically forming and breaking strong bonds. The emergent reaction ki...
Gianluca Gazzola, Andrew Buchanan, Norman H. Packa...
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Autonomy: A Review and a Reappraisal
Tom Froese, Nathaniel Virgo, Eduardo Izquierdo
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Adapting to Your Body
Abstract. This paper investigates the processes used by an evolved, embodied simulated agent to adapt to large disruptive changes in its sensor morphology, whilst maintaining perfo...
Peter Fine, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Eduardo Izquierd...