Toward A Practice Of Autonomous Systems

Author : Francisco J. Varela,Paul Bourgine
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992-04-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262720191

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Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems by Francisco J. Varela,Paul Bourgine Pdf

Artificial life embodies a recent and important conceptual step in modem science: asserting that the core of intelligence and cognitive abilities is the same as the capacity for living. The recent surge of interest in artificial life has pushed a whole range of engineering traditions, such as control theory and robotics, beyond classical notions of goal and planning into biologically inspired notions of viability and adaptation, situatedness and operational closure. These proceedings serve two important functions: they address bottom-up theories of artificial intelligence and explore what can be learned from simple models such as insects about the cognitive processes and characteristic autonomy of living organisms, while also engaging researchers and philosophers in an exciting examination of the epistemological basis of this new trend. Topics Artificial Animals • Genetic Algorithms • Autonomous Systems • Emergent Behaviors • Artificial Ecologies • Immunologic Algorithms • Self-Adapting Systems • Emergent Structures • Emotion And Motivation • Neural Networks • Coevolution • Fitness Landscapes Contributors H. Bersini, Domenico Parisi, Rodney A. Brooks, Christopher G. Langton, S. Kauffman, J.-L. Denenbourg, Pattie Maes, John Holland, T. Smithersm H. Swefel, H. Muhlenbein

Author : Francisco J. Varela,Paul Bourgine
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992-04-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262720199

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Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems by Francisco J. Varela,Paul Bourgine Pdf

Artificial life embodies a recent and important conceptual step in modem science: asserting that the core of intelligence and cognitive abilities is the same as the capacity for living. The recent surge of interest in artificial life has pushed a whole range of engineering traditions, such as control theory and robotics, beyond classical notions of goal and planning into biologically inspired notions of viability and adaptation, situatedness and operational closure. These proceedings serve two important functions: they address bottom-up theories of artificial intelligence and explore what can be learned from simple models such as insects about the cognitive processes and characteristic autonomy of living organisms, while also engaging researchers and philosophers in an exciting examination of the epistemological basis of this new trend. Topics Artificial Animals • Genetic Algorithms • Autonomous Systems • Emergent Behaviors • Artificial Ecologies • Immunologic Algorithms • Self-Adapting Systems • Emergent Structures • Emotion And Motivation • Neural Networks • Coevolution • Fitness Landscapes Contributors H. Bersini, Domenico Parisi, Rodney A. Brooks, Christopher G. Langton, S. Kauffman, J.-L. Denenbourg, Pattie Maes, John Holland, T. Smithersm H. Swefel, H. Muhlenbein

Author : Federico Moran
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-05-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540594965

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Advances in Artificial Life by Federico Moran Pdf

This volume contains 71 revised refereed papers, including seven invited surveys, presented during the Third European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL '95, held in Granada, Spain in June 1995. Originally AL was concerned with applying biologically inspired solutions to technology and with examining computational expertise in order to reproduce and understand life processes. Despite its short history, AL now is becoming a mature scientific field. The volume reports the state of the art in this exciting area of research; there are sections on foundations and epistemology, origins of life and evolution, adaptive and cognitive systems, artificial worlds, robotics and emulation of animal behavior, societies and collective behavior, biocomputing, and applications and common tools.

Author : Jean-Arcady Meyer,H. L. Roitblat,Stewart W. Wilson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Adaptability (Psychology)
ISBN : 0262631490

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From Animals to Animats 2 by Jean-Arcady Meyer,H. L. Roitblat,Stewart W. Wilson Pdf

More than sixty contributions in From Animals to Animats 2 byresearchers in ethology, ecology, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, robotics, and related fieldsinvestigate behaviors and the underlying mechanisms that allow animals and, potentially, robots toadapt and survive in uncertain environments. Jean-Arcady Meyer is Director of Research, CNRS, Paris.Herbert L. Roitblat is Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Stewart W.Wilson is a scientist at The Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge,Massachusetts. Topics covered: The Animat Approach to Adaptive Behavior,Perception and Motor Control, Action Selection and Behavioral Sequences, Cognitive Maps and InternalWorld Models, Learning, Evolution, Collective Behavior.

Author : Jürgen Klüver
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401595704

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The Dynamics and Evolution of Social Systems by Jürgen Klüver Pdf

When I started with this book several years ago I originally intended to write an introduction to mathematical systems theory for social scientists. Yet the more I thought about systems theory on the one side and theoretical sociology on the other the more I became convinced that the classical mathematical tools are not very well suited for the problems of sociology. Then I became acquainted with the researches on complex systems by the Santa Fe Institute and in particular with cellular automata, Boolean networks and genetic algorithms. These mathematically very simple but extremely efficient tools are, in my opinion, very well appropriate for modeling social dynamics. Therefore I tried to reformulate several classical problems of theoretical sociology in terms of these formal systems and outline new possibilities for a mathematical sociology which is able to join immediately on the great traditions of theoretical sociology. The result is this book; whether I succeeded with it is of course up to the readers. As the readers will perceive, the book could not have been written by me alone but only by the joint labors of the computer group at the Interdisciplinary Center of Research in Higher Education at the University of Essen. The members of the group, Christina Stoica, Jom Schmidt and Ralph Kier, are named in several subchapters as co-authors. Yet even more important than their contributions to this book were the permanent discussions with them and their patience with my new and very speculative ideas. Many thanks.

Author : Science Society Cognitive, Con,POLSON
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0805814876

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Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society by Science Society Cognitive, Con,POLSON Pdf

This volume features the complete text of all regular papers, posters, and summaries of symposia presented at the 15th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Author : Holk Cruse,Jeffrey Dean,Helge Ritter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1585 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789401008709

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Prerational Intelligence: Adaptive Behavior and Intelligent Systems Without Symbols and Logic , Volume 1, Volume 2 Prerational Intelligence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Behavior of Natural and Artificial Systems, Volume 3 by Holk Cruse,Jeffrey Dean,Helge Ritter Pdf

The present book is the product of conferences held in Bielefeld at the Center for interdisciplinary Sturlies (ZiF) in connection with a year-long ZiF Research Group with the theme "Prerational intelligence". The premise ex plored by the research group is that traditional notions of intelligent behav ior, which form the basis for much work in artificial intelligence and cog nitive science, presuppose many basic capabilities which are not trivial, as more recent work in robotics and neuroscience has shown, and that these capabilities may be best understood as ernerging from interaction and coop eration in systems of simple agents, elements that accept inputs from and act upon their surroundings. The main focus is on the way animals and artificial systems process in formation about their surroundings in order to move and act adaptively. The analysis of the collective properties of systems of interacting agents, how ever, is a problern that occurs repeatedly in many disciplines. Therefore, contributions from a wide variety of areas have been included in order to obtain a broad overview of phenomena that demoostrate complexity arising from simple interactions or can be described as adaptive behavior arising from the collective action of groups of agents. To this end we have invited contributions on topics ranging from the development of complex structures and functions in systems ranging from cellular automata, genetic codes, and neural connectivity to social behavior and evolution. Additional contribu tions discuss traditional concepts of intelligence and adaptive behavior. 1.

Author : Christopher G. Langton
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262621126

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Artificial Life by Christopher G. Langton Pdf

This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of the groundbreaking journal Artificial Life.

Author : Holk Cruse,Jeffrey Dean,Helge Ritter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0792366700

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Prerational Intelligence by Holk Cruse,Jeffrey Dean,Helge Ritter Pdf

Author : Ronald Chrisley,Sander Begeer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0415193346

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Artificial Intelligence by Ronald Chrisley,Sander Begeer Pdf

Author : Leandro dos Santos Coelho
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540497202

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Mobile Robots: The Evolutionary Approach by Leandro dos Santos Coelho Pdf

Researchers have obtained robots that display an amazing slew of behaviors and perform a multitude of tasks, including perception of environment, negotiating rough terrain, and pushing boxes. This volume offers a wide spectrum of sample works developed in leading research throughout the world about evolutionary mobile robotics and demonstrates the success of the technique in evolving efficient and capable mobile robots.

Author : John Mingers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781489910226

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Self-Producing Systems by John Mingers Pdf

John Mingers' new volume, Self-Producing Systems: Implications and Ap plications of Autopoiesis, is a much-needed reference on autopoiesis, a subject penetrating many disciplines today. I can genuinely say that I enjoyed reading the book as it took me stage by stage through a clear and easy-to-grasp understanding of the concepts and ideas of auto poiesis and then, as the book's title suggests, on through their applica tions. I found the summary in Chapter 12 particularly useful, helping to crystalize the main points of each chapter. The book conveyed enthusi asm for the subject and stimulated my interest in it. At times the book is demanding, but only because of the breadth of the subject matter, the terms and concepts associated with its parts, and the challenge of keep ing hold of all this in the mind at once. This is an exceptional text. ROBERT L. FLOOD Hull, UK Preface In recent years Maturana's and Varela's concept of autopoiesis, origi nally a biological concept, has made a remarkable impact not just on a single area, but across widely differing disciplines such as sociology, policy science, psychotherapy, cognitive science, and law. Put very briefly, the term autopoiesis connotes the idea that certain types of sys tems exist in a particular manner-they are self-producing systems. In their operations they continuously produce their own constituents, their own components, which then participate in these same production pro cesses.

Author : Luc Steels
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642796296

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The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents by Luc Steels Pdf

The NATO sponsored Advanced Study Institute 'The Biology and Tech nology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents' was an extraordinary event. For two weeks it brought together the leading proponents of the new behavior oriented approach to Artificial Intelligence in Castel Ivano near Trento. The goal of the meeting was to establish a solid scientific and technological foun dation for the field of intelligent autonomous agents with a bias towards the new methodologies and techniques that have recently been developed in Ar tificial Intelligence under the strong influence of biology. Major themes of the conference were: bottom-up AI research, artificial life, neural networks and techniques of emergent functionality. The meeting was such an extraordinary event because it not only featured very high quality lectures on autonomous agents and the various fields feeding it, but also robot laboratories which were set up by the MIT AI laboratory (with a lab led by Rodney Brooks) and the VUB AI laboratory (with labs led by Tim Smithers and Luc Steels). This way the participants could also gain practical experience and discuss in concreto what the difficulties and achievements were of different approaches. In fact, the meeting has been such a success that a follow up meeting is planned for September 1995 in Monte Verita (Switzerland). This meeting is organised by Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich).

Author : Niran B. Abbas,Niran Bahjat Abbas
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : 3825896447

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Thinking Machines by Niran B. Abbas,Niran Bahjat Abbas Pdf

This book explores historical traces of human life within the discourse of artifical intelligence. It addresses a matrix of themes about technology and change, ranging from the realm of the inanimate to the animate. It traces the ways in which the human spirit looks beyond its limitations and ponders the potentia of 'being human.'

Author : Ivan Plander
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : 9789814533904

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Artificial Intelligence and Information-control Systems of Robots '94 by Ivan Plander Pdf