Browsing Research publications by Author "Polani, D."
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Adaptation of Kohonen feature map topologies by genetic algorithms
Polani, D.; Uthmann, T. (Elsevier, 1992)The following paper presents simulational results of coupling Genetic Algorithms to the Kohonen Feature Map paradigm. The Genetic Algorithm is used to improve the Kohonen Net topology, thus yielding better adaptation to ... -
Adaptation of the Perception-Action Loop Using Active Channel Sampling
Capdepuy, P.; Polani, D.; Nehaniv, C.L. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2008) -
All Else Being Equal Be Empowered
Klyubin, A.S.; Polani, D.; Nehaniv, C.L. (2005)The classical approach to using utility functions suffers from the drawback of having to design and tweak the functions on a case by case basis. Inspired by examples from the animal kingdom, social sciences and games we ... -
Apparent actions and apparent goal-directedness
Polani, D.; Biehl, Martin (2015-07)In human history countless phenomena have been (wrongly) attributed to agents. For instance, now science believes there are no gods (agents) of lightning, thunder and wind behind the associated phenomena. In physics (assuming ... -
Approximation of empowerment in the continuous domain
Salge, Christoph; Glackin, Cornelius; Polani, D. (2012)The empowerment formalism offers a goal-independent utility function fully derived from an agent's embodiment. It produces intrinsic motivations which can be used to generate self-organizing behaviours in agents. One ... -
Bioinformatic Principles Underlying the Information Content of Transcription Factor Binding Sites
Polani, D.; Kim, J.T.; Martinetz, T. (2003)Empirically, it has been observed in several cases that the information content of transcription factor binding site sequences (Rsequence) approximately equals the information content of binding site positions (Rfrequency). ... -
Bivariate Measure of Redundant Information
Harder, Malte; Salge, Christoph; Polani, D. (2013-01-23)We define a measure of redundant information based on projections in the space of probability distributions. Redundant information between random variables is information that is shared between those variables. But in ... -
Changing the Environment Based on Empowerment as Intrinsic Motivation
Salge, Christoph; Glackin, Cornelius; Polani, D. (2014-05-21)One aspect of intelligence is the ability to restructure your own environment so that the world you live in becomes more beneficial to you. In this paper we investigate how the information-theoretic measure of agent ... -
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 ... -
Constructing the Basic Umwelt of Artificial Agents: An Information-Theoretic Approach
Capdepuy, P.; Polani, D.; Nehaniv, C.L. (2007) -
Construction of an Internal Predictive Model by Event Anticipation
Capdepuy, P.; Polani, D.; Nehaniv, C.L. (2007)We introduce information-theoretic tools that can be used in an autonomous agent for constructing an internal predictive model based on event anticipation. This model relies on two different kinds of predictive relationships: ... -
CORBYS cognitive control architecture for robotic follower
Leu, Adrian; Ristic-Durrant, Danijela; Slavnic, Sinisa; Glackin, Cornelius; Salge, Christoph; Polani, D.; Badii, Atta; Khan, Ali; Raval, Rajkumar (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-12)In this paper the novel generic cognitive robot control architecture CORBYS is presented. The objective of the CORBYS architecture is the integration of high-level cognitive modules to support robot functioning in dynamic ... -
A Decentralized Agent-Based Platform for Automated Trade and its Simulation
Kutschinski, E.; Polani, D.; Uthmann, T. (Society for Computational Economics, 2000) -
Defining Emergent Descriptions by Information Preservation
Polani, D. (2004) -
The degree of potential damage in agonistic contests and its effects on social aggression, territoriality and display evolution
Lowe, R.; Nehaniv, C.L.; Polani, D.; Cañamero, Lola (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2005)The potential for animals to inflict damage on one another whilst competing for indivisible resources is a factor of crucial importance when determining pay-offs to such animals and consequent likelihood of adopting an ... -
Development: The Missing Link between Evolution and Learning?
Polani, D. (2011) -
Digested information as an information theoretic motivation for social interaction
Salge, Christoph; Polani, D. (2011)Within a universal agent-world interaction framework, based on Information Theory and Causal Bayesian Networks, we demonstrate how every agent that needs to acquire relevant information in regard to its strategy selection ... -
Discovering Motion Flow by Temporal-Informational Correlations in Sensors
Olsson, L.; Nehaniv, C.L.; Polani, D. (2005) -
Don't Believe Everything You Hear : Preserving Relevant Information by Discarding Social Information
Salge, Christoph; Polani, D. (MIT Press, 2014)Integrating information gained by observing others via Social Bayesian Learning can be beneficial for an agent’s performance, but can also enable population wide information cascades that perpetuate false beliefs through ... -
Effects of Anticipation in Individually Motivated Behaviour on Control and Survival in a Multi-Agent Scenario with Resource Constraints
Guckelsberger, Christian; Polani, D. (2014-06-19)Self-organization and survival are inextricably bound to an agent’s ability to control and anticipate its environment. Here we assess both skills when multiple agents compete for a scarce resource. Drawing on insights from ...