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Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents

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Editors:
  1. Stefano Nolfi

    1. e Tecnologie della Cognizione, CNR Roma, ISTC - Ist. Scienze, Roma, Italy

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  2. Marco Mirolli

    1. e Tecnologie della Cognizione, CNR Roma, ISTC - Ist. Scienze, Roma, Italy

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  • This field of research examines how embodied and situated agents, such as robots, evolve language and thus communicate with each other.

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. A Synthetic Approach to the Study of the Evolution of Communication and Language

    • Stefano Nolfi, Marco Mirolli
    Pages 1-9

  3. Theoretical Aspects of Communication and Language

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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  4. Theoretical Aspects of Communication and Language

    1. Artificial Organisms with Human Language

      • Domenico Parisi
      Pages 13-35

    2. Evolution of Language as One of the Major Evolutionary Transitions

      • Eörs Szathmáry
      Pages 37-53

    3. Strategic Aspects of Communication

      • Edward Hagen, Peter Hammerstein, Nicole Hess
      Pages 55-65

    4. Theoretical Tools in Modeling Communication and Language Dynamics

      • Vittorio Loreto
      Pages 67-81

    5. Emergence of Scale-Free Syntax Networks

      • Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Sergi Valverde, Ricard V. Solé
      Pages 83-101

  5. Evolution of Communication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Evolving Communication in Embodied Agents: Theory, Methods, and Evaluation

      • Marco Mirolli, Stefano Nolfi
      Pages 105-121

    3. Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication

      • Sara Mitri, Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller
      Pages 123-134

    4. Producer Biases and Kin Selection in the Evolution of Communication

      • Marco Mirolli, Domenico Parisi
      Pages 135-159

    5. Evolution of Signaling in a Multi-Robot System: Categorization and Communication

      • Christos Ampatzis, Elio Tuci, Vito Trianni, Marco Dorigo
      Pages 161-178

    6. Evolution of Implicit and Explicit Communication in Mobile Robots

      • Joachim de Greeff, Stefano Nolfi
      Pages 179-214

    7. Evolving Communication in Embodied Agents: Assessment and Open Challenges

      • Stefano Nolfi, Marco Mirolli
      Pages 215-220

  6. Evolution of Language

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. Modeling The Formation of Language in Embodied Agents: Methods and Open Challenges

      • Luc Steels
      Pages 223-233

    3. Modeling the Formation of Language: Embodied Experiments

      • Luc Steels
      Pages 235-262

    4. Mathematical Modeling of Language Games

      • Vittorio Loreto, Andrea Baronchelli, Andrea Puglisi
      Pages 263-281

    5. Modeling the Formation of Language in Embodied Agents: Conclusions and Future Research

      • Luc Steels, Vittorio Loreto
      Pages 283-288
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About this book

This field of research examines how embodied and situated agents, such as robots, evolve language and thus communicate with each other. This book is a comprehensive survey of the research in this emerging field.

The contributions explain the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field, and then illustrate the scientific and technological potentials and promising research directions. The book also provides descriptions of research experiments and related open software and hardware tools, allowing the reader to gain a practical knowledge of the topic.

The book will be of interest to scientists and undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of cognition, artificial life, artificial intelligence and linguistics.

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“One of the most challenging problems in human cognition is the origin of language. … The editors of this book have brought together two communities of researchers to record the current state of the research agenda and report some recent advances. … This volume is a fascinating summary of the state of the art in a challenging area of research. It serves as a sobering reminder of how far we are from a consistent bottom-up explanation of the wonder of human language.” (H. Van Dyke Parunak, ACM Computing Reviews, December, 2010)

Editors and Affiliations

  • e Tecnologie della Cognizione, CNR Roma, ISTC - Ist. Scienze, Roma, Italy

    Stefano Nolfi, Marco Mirolli

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