Research Catalog

Title

Evolution of communication and language in embodied agents / Stefano Nolfi, Marco Mirolli, editors.

Publication

Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, ©2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nolfi, Stefano.
• Mirolli, Marco.

Description

xi, 313 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Subject

• Natural language processing (Computer science)
• Computational linguistics
• Intelligent agents (Computer software)
• Robotics
• Artificial intelligence
• Evolutionary computation
• Computational linguistics
• Evolutionary computation
• Robotics
• Natural Language Processing
• Artificial Intelligence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online.

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Contents

A synthetic approach to the study of the evolution of communication and language / Stefano Nolfi, Marco Mirolli -- Part I: Theoretical aspects of communication and language -- Artificial organisms with human language / Domenico Parisi -- Evolution of language as one of the major evolutionary transitions / Eörs Szathmáry -- Strategic aspects of communication / Edward Hagen, Peter Hammerstein, Nicole Hess -- Theoretical tools in modeling communication and language dynamics / Vittorio Loreto -- Emergence of scale-free syntax networks / Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Sergi Valverde, Ricard V. Solé -- Part II: Evolution of communication -- Evolving communication in embodied agents: theory, methods, and evaluation / Marco Mirolli, Stefano Nolfi -- Evolutionary conditions for the emergence of communication / Sara Mitri, Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller -- Producer biases and kin selection in the evolution of communication / Marco Mirolli, Domenico Parisis --^ Evolution of signaling in a multi-robot system : categorization and communication / Christos Ampatzis, Elio Tuci, Vito Trianni [and others] -- Evolution of implicit and explicit communication in mobile robots / Joachim de Greeff, Stefano Nolfi -- Evolving communication in embodied agents : assessment and open challenges / Stefano Nolfi, Marco Mirolli -- Part III: Evolution of language -- Modeling the formation of language in embodied agents: methods and open challenges / Luc Steels -- Modeling the formation of language : embodied experiments / Luc Steels -- Mathematical modeling of language games / Vittorio Loreto, Andrea Baronchelli, Andrea Puglisi -- Modeling the formation of language in embodied agents : conclusions and future research / Luc Steels, Vittorio Loreto -- Part IV: Conclusion -- Embodied and communicationg agents : towards the establishment of a solid theoretical and methodological framework / Stefano Nolfi, Marco Mirolli --^ Part V: Appendix : software and hardware tools -- Evorobot / Stefano Nolfi, Onofrio Gigliotta -- E-puck / Dario Floreano, Sara Mitri, Julien Hubert -- Babel / Luc Steels, Martin Loetzsch.

ISBN

• 9783642012495
• 3642012493
• 9783642012501
• 3642012507

LCCN

^^2009942033

OCLC

435734467

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library