From animals to animats 2 : proceedings of the Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior

(2nd :

From animals to animats two

Complex adaptive systems

Complex adaptive systems.

Preface -- The Animat Approach to Adaptive Behavior -- Behavior-Based Artificial Intelligence / Environment Structure and Adaptive Behavior from the Ground Up / Evolutionary Wanderlust: Sexual Selection with Directional Mate Preferences / Designing Efficiently Navigating Non-Goal-Directed Robots / Perception and Motor Control -- Anuran Visuomotor Coordination for Detour Behavior: From Retina to Motor Schemas / Artificial Neural Nets for Controlling a 6-Legged Walking System / A Neural Network Based Behavior Hierarchy for Locomotion Control / A Qualitative Dynamical Analysis of Evolved Locomotion Controllers / Neuronal Parameter Maps and Signal Processing / Representation and Processing of Acoustic Information in a Biomimetic Neural Network / An Integrated Computational Model of a Perceptual-Motor System / Reactive Behaviors of Fast Mobile Robots in Unstructured Environments: Sensor-based Control and Neural Networks / The Adaptive Nature of 3D Perception / Propulsion and Guidance in a Simulation of the Worm C. Elegans / A Simple, Cheap, and Robust Visual Navigation System / Action Selection and Behavioral Sequences -- The Use of Hierarchies for Action Selection / Two Methods for Hierarchy Learning in Reinforcement Environments / Should I Stay or Should I Go: Coordinating Biological Needs with Continuously-updated Assessments of the Environment / Extensions of the Associative Control Process (ACP) Network: Hierarchies and Provable Optimality / Behavior Networks and Force Fields for Simulating Spinal Reflex Behaviors of the Frog / The Ariadne's Clew Algorithm / Dynamic Selection of Action Sequences / Planning Simple Trajectories Using Neural Subgoal Generators / A Note on Rate-Sensitive Habituation / Cognitive Maps and Internal World Models -- Categorization, Representations, and the Dynamics of System-Environment Interaction: A Case Study in Autonomous Systems / A Directional Spreading Activation Network for Mobile Robot Navigation / Memorizing and Representing Route Scenes / Building Long-range Cognitive Maps using Local Landmarks / Dynamics of Spatial Navigation: An Adaptive Neural Network / Learning -- Modeling Nervous System Function with a Hierarchical Network of Control Systems that Learn / An Optimization-based Categorization of Reinforcement Learning Environments / Reinforcement Learning with Hidden States / Efficient Learning and Planning within the Dyna Framework / Increasing Behavioural Repertoire in a Mobile Robot / Learning Biped Robot Obstacle Crossing / Learning to Control an Autonomous Robot by Distributed Genetic Algorithms / Temporary Memory for Examples Can Speed Learning in a Simple Adaptive System / Implementing Inner Drive through Competence Reflection / Dynamic Flight Control with Adaptive Coarse Coding / Learning via Task Decomposition / Evolution -- Neural Networks with Motivational Units / Evolutionary Learning of Predatory Behaviors Based on Structured Classifiers / Issues in Evolutionary Robotics / Evolving Visually Guided Robots / An Evolved, Vision-Based Behavioral Model of Coordinated Group Motion / Evolution of Herding Behavior in Artificial Animals / An Evolutionary Approach to Cognition / Emergence of Nest-Based Foraging Strategies in Ecosystems of Neural Networks / Evolving Hardware with Genetic Learning: A First Step Towards Building a Darwin Machine / Evolving Artificial Insect Brains for Artificial Compound Eye Robotics / Collective Behavior -- Designing Emergent Behaviors: From Local Interactions to Collective Intelligence / Adaptive Action Selection for Cooperative Agent Teams / From Tom Thumb to the Dockers: Some Experiments with Foraging Robots / Collective Robotic Intelligence / Collective Choice of Strategic Type / An Adaptive Communication Protocol for Cooperating Mobile Robots / Dimensions of Communication and Social Organization in Multi-agent Robotic Systems / Evolution of Trading Strategies Among Heterogeneous Artificial Economic Agents / Action Selection and Learning in Multi-Agent Environments / One-Page Summaries -- Structure from Associative Learning / The Roots of Motivation / Learning Continuous-Space Navigation Heuristics in Real Time / The Adaptive Power of Affect: Learning in the SESAME Architecture / Model of a Behaviour Based Control Architecture / Comparing Robot and Animal Behavior / An Embodied Neurally-based Algorithm for Optimal Action Selection / Why Should We Build Artificial Worms and How? / Creative Perception / Collective Behavior of Silicon Microrobots / An Analog VLSI Model of Central Pattern Generation in the Medicinal Leech / Author Index.

From animals to animats 2 : proceedings of the Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior

(2nd :

From animals to animats two

Complex adaptive systems

Complex adaptive systems.