| From Animals to Animats 5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior Contributor(s): Pfeifer, Rolf (Editor), Blumberg, Bruce (Editor), Meyer, Jean-Arcady (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0262661446 ISBN-13: 9780262661447 Publisher: Bradford Book OUR PRICE: $84.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1998 Annotation: The Animals to Animats Conference brings together researchers from ethology, psychology, ecology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, engineering, and related fields to further understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow natural and synthetic agents (animats) to adapt and survive in uncertain environments. The work presented focuses on well-defined models--robotic, computer-simulation, and mathematical--that help to characterize and compare various organizational principles or architectures underlying adaptive behavior in both natural animals and animats. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Zoology - General - Technology & Engineering | Robotics - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
| Dewey: 591.501 |
| LCCN: 98210527 |
| Series: Complex Adaptive Systems, |
| Physical Information: 582 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Animals to Animats Conference brings together researchers fromethology, psychology, ecology, artificial intelligence, artificiallife, robotics, engineering, and related fields to furtherunderstanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allownatural and synthetic agents (animats) to adapt and survive inuncertain environmentsThe Animals to Animats Conference brings together researchers from ethology, psychology, ecology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, engineering, and related fields to further understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow natural and synthetic agents (animats) to adapt and survive in uncertain environments. The work presented focuses on well-defined models--robotic, computer-simulation, and mathematical--that help to characterize and compare various organizational principles or architectures underlying adaptive behavior in both natural animals and animats. |
Contributor Bio(s): Meyer, Jean-Arcady: - Jean-Arcady Meyer is Emeritus Research Director at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and a researcher at the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris.Wilson, Stewart W.: - Stewart W. Wilson is a scientist at The Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts.Pfeifer, Rolf: - Rolf Pfeifer is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich. He is the author of Understanding Intelligence (MIT Press, 1999). |