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ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Category Theoretical Distinction Between Autopoiesis and (M, R) Systems
Abstract. Some research works have mentioned the similarity of autopoiesis with (M,R) systems proposed by Rosen, from the perspective of closedness of the systems. However, there a...
Tatsuya Nomura
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Information-Cloning of Scale-Free Networks
In this paper1 , we introduce a method, Assortative Preferential Attachment, to grow a scale-free network with a given assortativeness value. Utilizing this method, we investigate ...
Piraveenan Mahendra, Mikhail Prokopenko, Albert Y....
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Adaptation to Sensory Delays
Abstract. Evolutionary robotics simulations can serve as a tool to clarify counterintuitive or dynamically complex aspects of sensorimotor behaviour. We present a series of simulat...
Marieke Rohde, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Distributed Formation Algorithm to Organize Agents with No Coordinate Agreement
Abstract. In this paper we present an extension of the ShapeBugs distributed formation algorithm which enables 2D mobile agents to agree on a consensus coordinate system starting f...
Gregory Studer, Inman Harvey
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Fear and the Behaviour of Virtual Flocking Animals
The paper investigates the role of an affective system as part of an ethologically-inspired action-selection mechanism for virtual animals in a 3D interactive graphics environment....
Carlos Delgado-Mata, Ruth Aylett
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Neutral Emergence and Coarse Graining
We introduce the concept of neutral emergence (defined by analogy to an information theoretic view of neutral evolution), and discuss how it might be used in the engineering of ro...
Andrew Weeks, Susan Stepney, Fiona Polack
ECAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Guided Self-organisation for Autonomous Robot Development
Abstract. The paper presents a method to guide the self-organised development of behaviours of autonomous robots. In earlier publications we demonstrated how to use the homeokinesi...
Georg Martius, J. Michael Herrmann, Ralf Der