Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents

By Stefano Nolfi

Book Overview

A Synthetic Approach to the Study of the Evolution of Communication and Language.- Theoretical Aspects of Communication and Language.- Artificial Organisms with Human Language.- Evolution of Language as One of the Major Evolutionary Transitions.- Strategic Aspects of Communication.- Theoretical Tools in Modeling Communication and Language Dynamics.- Emergence of Scale-Free Syntax Networks.- Evolution of Communication.- Evolving Communication in Embodied Agents: Theory, Methods, and Evaluation.- Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication.- Producer Biases and Kin Selection in the Evolution of Communication.- Evolution of Signaling in a Multi-Robot System: Categorization and Communication.- Evolution of Implicit and Explicit Communication in Mobile Robots.- Evolving Communication in Embodied Agents: Assessment and Open Challenges.- Evolution of Language.- Modeling The Formation of Language in Embodied Agents: Methods and Open Challenges.- Modeling the Formation of Language: Embodied Experiments.- Mathematical Modeling of Language Games.- Modeling the Formation of Language in Embodied Agents: Conclusions and Future Research.- Conclusion.- Embodied and Communicating Agents: Towards the Establishment of a Solid Theoretical and Methodological Framework.- Appendix: Software and Hardware Tools.- Evorobot*.- E-puck.- Babel.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642424996
• ISBN13: 9783642424991
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"