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Meaning for observers and agents
(1999)
Claude Shannon formalized the notion of information transmission rate and capacity for pre-existing channels. Wittgenstein in his later work insisted that linguistic meaning be defined in terms of use in language games. ...
Narrative for artifacts: transcending context and self
(AAAI, 1999)
We discuss the importance of narrative intelligence (story-awareness, story-telling, historical grounding) in regard to an agent's transcendence of its immediate local temporal context to create a broad temporal horizon ...
Story-telling and emotion : cognitive technology considerations in networking temporally and affectively grounded minds
(1999)
As technological agents that we interact with take an increasing amount of autonomy and responsibility from us, acting on our behalf, there are prospects for social changes in our notions of responsibility for our own ...
On Bots and Bacteria: Ontology Independent Embodiment
(1999)
A framework for understanding and exploiting embodiment is presented which is not dependent on any specific ontological context. This framework is founded on a new definition of embodiment, based on the relational dynamics ...
The Second Person — Meaning and Metaphors
(1999)
A notion of meaning is introduced that is related to information theory but requires agents and observers (who may or may not coincide) for its genesis. We generalize Wittgenstein’s notion of language games to interaction ...
Linear analysis of genetic algorithms
(1998)
We represent simple and fitness-scaled genetic algorithms by Markov chains on probability distributions over the set of all possible populations of a fixed finite size. Analysis of this formulation yields new insight into ...
The right stuff : appropriate mathematics for evolution and development biology
(University of Hertfordshire, 1998)
We are looking for the ‘right stuff’, i.e. appropriate mathematical and computational tools/ models for describing, studying, building or understanding fundamental aspects of natural living systems or living systems ...
From relation to emulation: the covering lemma for transformation semigroups
(1996)
We define the kernel of a relational morphism of finite or infinite, faithful or non-faithful transformation semigroups. We prove the covering lemma for transformation semigroups, and a wreath product embedding theorem in ...
Algebraic connectivity
(1991)