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Self-reproduction in asynchronous cellular automata
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2002)
Building on the work of Von Neumann, Burks, Codd, and Langton, among others, we introduce the first examples of asynchronous self-reproduction in cellular automata. Reliance on a global synchronous update signal has been ...
Do as I Do: Correspondences across Different Robotic Embodiments
(2002)
Behaviour matching and imitation serve as fundamental mechanisms for social learning, the development of social skills, and the evolution of cultures. Imitation and observational learning as means for acquiring new behaviours ...
The Correspondence Problem
(MIT Press, 2002)
The identification of any form of social learning, imitation, copying or mimicry presupposes a notion of correspondence between two autonomous agents. Judging whether a behaviour has been transmitted socially requires the ...
The Agent-Based Perspective on Imitation
(MIT Press, 2002)
This chapter presents the agent-based perspective on imitation. In this perspective, imitation is best considered as the behaviour of an autonomous agent in relation to its environment, including other autonomous agents. ...
Holonomy Embedding for Arbitrary Stable Semigroups
(2002)
We show how the Rhodes expansion Ŝ of any stable semigroup S embeds into the cascade integral (a natural generalization of the wreath product) of permutation-reset transformation semigroups with zero adjoined. The permutation ...
Fact and Artifact : Reification and Drift in the History and Growth of Interactive Software Systems
(2001)
We discuss the processes and forces informing artifact design and the subsequent drift in requirements and interests in the long-term growth of reified systems. We describe, following Latour, the strategies of technoscience ...