Browsing Research publications by Author "Noble, Jason"
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Common concepts in agent groups, symmetries, and conformity in a simple environment
Moller, M.; Polani, D. (MIT Press, 2008)We analyze representations of the world attained through an infomax principle by agents acting in a simple environment. The representations obtained by different agents in general differ to some extent from each other in ... -
Evolving morphological and behavioral diversity without predefined behavior primitives
Pichler, Peter Paul; Cañamero, Lola (MIT Press, 2008)Virtual ecosystems, where natural selection is used to evolve complex agent behavior, are often preferred to traditional genetic algorithms because the absence of an explicitly defined fitness allows for a less constrained ... -
Modelling stigmergic gene transfer
Polani, D.; Prokopenko, M.; Chadwick, M. (MIT Press, 2008)We consider an information-theoretic model studying the conditions when a separation between the dynamics of a ’proto-cell’ and its proto-symbolic representation becomes beneficial in terms of preserving the proto-cell’s ... -
On preferred states of agents: how global structure is reflected in local structure
Anthony, T.; Polani, D.; Nehaniv, C.L. (MIT Press, 2008)We investigate the correlation between the information theoretic measure of empowerment and the graph theoretic measure of closeness centrality, to better understand the structural conditions that must exist in a world for ... -
Why should you care? : An arousal-based model of exploratory behavior for autonomous robots
Hiolle, Antoine; Canamero, Lola (MIT Press, 2008)The question of how autonomous robots could be part of our everyday life is of a growing interest. We present here an experiment in which an autonomous robot explores its environment and tries to familiarize itself with ...