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Information, The Decision-Making Traffic Jam Of the 21st Century- A Management Perspective
(University of Hertfordshire, 2000)Increasingly, the value of a business today is measured in terms of what it knows, rather than what it owns. Even so, whilst knowledge exists in most organisations it is regularly difficult to access. This paper addresses ... -
An information-based solution for the puzzle of testimony and trust
(2010)In this paper, I offer a contribution to the debate on testimony that rests on three elements: the definition of semantic information (Floridi, 2004), the analysis of trust as a second-order property of first-order relations ... -
Information-driven organization of visual receptive fields
(Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 2008)By using information theory to reduce the state space of sensor arrays, such as receptive fields, for AI decision making we offer an adaptive algorithm without classical biases of hand coded approaches. This paper presents ... -
Information-driven organization of visual receptive fields
(2009)By using information theory to reduce the state space of sensor arrays, such as receptive fields, for AI decision making we offer an adaptive algorithm without classical biases of hand coded approaches. This paper presents ... -
Information-theoretic characterization of uncertainty in manual control
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-12-01)We present a novel approach for quantifying the impact of uncertainty in manual control, based on information and control theories and utilizing the information-theoretic capacity of empowerment, a task-independent universal ... -
Information-theoretic measures as a generic approach to human-robot interaction : Application in CORBYS project
(ACM Press, 2014)The objective of the CORBYS project is to design and implement a robot control architecture that allows the integration of high-level cognitive control modules, such as a semantically-driven self-awareness module and a ... -
Information-Theoretic Modeling of Sensory Ecology: Channels of Organism-Specific Meaningful Information
(MIT Press, 2007)Information theory developed by C. Shannon and his followers in the mathematical theory of communication surprisingly but successfully abstracted away from two questions: (1) the origin and maintenance of information ... -
Information-Theoretic Models of Communication in Biological Systems
(2017-11-10)This thesis aims to find general principles governing the behaviour of biological systems, with a particular emphasis in the communicational (social) aspect of these systems. Communication between biological entities ... -
Information-theoretic Sensorimotor Foundations of Fitts' Law
(ACM Press, 2019-05-02)We propose a novel, biologically plausible cost/fitness function for sensorimotor control, formalized with the information-theoretic principle of empowerment, a task-independent universal utility. Empowerment captures ... -
Informational Constraints and Organisation of Behaviour
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-01-24)Based on the view of an agent as an information processing system, and the premise that for such a system it is evolutionary advantageous to be parsimonious with respect to informational burden, an information-theoreti ... -
Informational drives for sensor evolution
(2012-07-01)It has been hypothesized that the evolution of sensors is a pivotal driver for the evolution of organisms, and especially, as a crucial part of the perception-action loop, a driver for cognitive development. The questions ... -
The informational nature of personal identity
(2011)In this paper, I present an informational approach to the nature of personal identity. In "Plato and the problem of the chariot", I use Plato's famous metaphor of the chariot to introduce a specific problem regarding the ... -
Informational parasites in code evolution
(2015-05-01)In a previous study, we considered an information-theoretic model of code evolution. In it, agents obtain information about their (common) environment by the perception of messages of other agents, which is determined by ... -
An informational perspective on how the embodiment can relieve cognitive burden
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)Living organisms are under permanent pressure to take decisions with an impact on their success. Such decisions require information, which can be formulated in the precise sense of Shannon information. Since information ... -
Informational Principles of Perception-Action Loops and Collective Behaviours
(2011-01-20)Living beings, robotic and software artefacts can all be seen as agents acting and perceiving within an environment. When observed under that perspective, a new concept is accessible: information in the sense of Shannon. ... -
An informational study of the evolution of codes and of emerging concepts in populations of agents
(2016-05-13)We consider the problem of the evolution of a code within a structured population of agents. The agents try to maximise their information about their environment by acquiring information from the outputs of other agents ... -
An Informational Study of the Evolution of Codes in Different Population Structures
(MIT Press, 2014)We consider the problem of the evolution of a code within a structured population of agents. The agents try to maximise their information about their environment by acquiring information from the outputs of other agents ...