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FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
edited by Jean-Arcady Meyer and Stewart W. Wilson
A Bradford Book The MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
CONTENTS
Preface ix
THE ANIMAT APPROACH
Simulation of Adaptive Behavior in Animats: Review and Prospect 2
Jean-Arcady Meyer and Agnes Guillot
The Animat Path to AI 15
Stewart W. Wilson
What It Means for Robot Behaviour to be Adaptive 22
David McFarland
Computational Neuroethology: A Provisional Manifesto 29
Dave Cliff
On the Feasibility of Computational Artificial Life--A Reply to Critics 40
Harold C. Morris
The Animat and the Physician 50
Alexandre Parodi and Pierre Bonelli
Extended Classifiers for Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 58
Renaud Dumeur
PERCEPTION AND MOTOR CONTROL
Biomimetic Sonar Processing: From Dolphin Echolocation to Artificial Neural Networks 66
H. L. Roitblat, P. W. B. Moore, P. E. Nachtigall, and R. H. Penner
Hierarchical Dishabituation of Visual Discrimination in Toads 77
DeLiang Wang and Michael A. Arbib
The Computational Hoverfly: A Study in Computational Neuroethology 87
Dave Cliff
Can Allied Reflexes Promote the Integration of a Robot's Behavior? 97
Philip Teitelbaum, Vivien C. Pellis, and Sergio M. Pellis
Coordination of Leg Movement in Walking Animals 105
Holk Cruse
A Biological Visuo-Motor System: How Dissimilar Maps Interact to Produce Behavior 120
Gerhard Manteuffel
A Biological and Computational Stereo Vision 127
Stephen T. Barnard
Modeling and Simulation of Animals' Movements 135
Simon Benhamou and Pierre Bovet
COGNITIVE MAPS AND INTERNAL WORLD MODELS
Schemas for Prey-Catching in Frog and Toad 142
Michael A. Arbib and Alberto Cobas
Mapbuilding Using Self-Organising Networks in "Really Useful Robots" 152
Ulrich Nehmzow and Tim Smithers
The Contribution of Quantitative Models to The Long Distance Orientation Problems 160
Marc Jamon
Navigating with a Rat Brain: A Neurobiologically-Inspired Model for Robot Spatial Representation 169
Maja J. Mataric
Four Important Issues in Cognitive Mapping 176
W. K. Yeap and C. C. Handley
Attracting Similar Shapes Towards Each Other 184
Mitch R. Harris
MOITIVATION AND EMOTION
Ethological and Psychological Models of Motivation--Towards a Synthesis 194
Frederick Toates and Per Jensen
Pleasure: The Answer to Conflicting Motivations 206
Michel Cabanac
MachineMotivation 213
J. R. P. Halperin
A Possibility for Implementing Curiosity and Boredom in Model- Building Neural Controllers 222
Juergen Schmidhuber
ACTION SELECTION AND BEHAVIORAL SEQUENCES
Instinct as an Inductive Bias for Learning Behavioral Sequences 230
Lashon B. Booker
A Bottom-Up Mechanism for Behavior Selection in an Artificial Creature 238
Pattie Maes
The Neural Basis of Behavioral Choice in an Artificial Insect. 247
Randall D. Beer and Hillel J. Chiel
An Investigation of Two Mediation Strategies Suitable for Behavioural Control
in Animals and Animats 255
Martin Snaith and Owen Holland
Computer Simulation of an Animal Environment 263
Toby Tyrrell and John E. W. Mayhew
ONTOGENY AND LEARNING
Ontogeny of Preferences in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) Exposed to Food
and Conspecifics 274
Pafrick W. Colgan,T. Lynne Jamieson, Janice E. Frame, and J. Terry Smith
Simulation Studies of Song Learning in Birds 281
James M. Williams and P. J. B. Slater
Reinforcement Learning Architectures for Animats 288
Richard S. Sutton
Self-Improving Reactive Agents: Case Studies of Reinforcement Learning Frameworks.297
Long-Ji Lin
Exploring Adaptive Agency II: Simulating the Evolution of Associative Learning 306
Peter M. Todd and Geoffrey F. Miller
Lookahead Planning and Latent Learning in a Classifier System 316
Rick L. Riolo
Learning Hill-Climbing Functions as a Strategy for Generating Behaviors
in a Mobile Robot 327
David Pierce and Benjamin Kuipers
Some Parallels Between Associative Learning and Object Classification 337
David R. Shanks
COLLECTIVE BEHAVIORS
Task Differentation in Polistes Wasp Colonies: A Model for Self- Organizing
Groups of Robots 346
Guy Theraulaz, Simon Goss, Jacques Gervet, and Jean- Louis Deneubourg
The Dynamics of Collective Sorting: Robot-Like Ants and Ant-Like Robots 356
J. L. Deneubourg, S. Goss, N. Franks, A. Sendova-Franks, C. Detrain, and L. Chretien
EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOR
Evolution and Co-Evolution of Computer Programs to Control Independently-Acting
Agents 366
John R. Koza
The Evolution of Information Gathering: Operationa1 Constraints 376
Cynthia Kurtz
Representations for Artificial Organisms 382
Robert J. Collins and David R. Jefferson
Evolving Organisms That Can Reach for Objects 391
Federico Cecconi and Domenico Parisi
The Artificial Evolution of Behaviour 400
Inman Harvey
The Rise of Interaction: Intrinsic Simulation Modeling of the Onset
of Interacting Behaviour 409
Fabio De Luigi and Vifforio Maniezzo
The Evolution of Behavior: Some Experiments 419
Jan Paredis
A Von Neumann Approach to a Genotype Explession in a Neural Animat 427
Dan Wood
ARCHITECTURES, ORGANIZATIONAL PRINCIPLES, AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACHES
Challenges for Complete Creature Architecture 434
Rodney A. Brooks
Cognitive Action Theory as a Control Architecture 444
H. L. Roitblat
Towards a Theory of Emergent Functionality 451
Luc Steels
Eight Principles for Building an Intelligent Robot. 462
David L. Waltz
Robot Ethology: A Proposal for the Research into Intelligent Autonomous System 465
Uwe Schnepf
A Model of the Mechanisms Underlying Exploratory Behaviour 475
Liane M. Gabora and Patrick W. Colgan
The Causal Analysis of an Adaptive System: Sex- Ratio Decisions as Observed
in a Parasitic Wasp and Simulated by a Network Model 485
Marijke Vonk, Felix Putters, and Berend-Jan Velthuis
Evolution as Pattern Processing: TODO as Substrate for Evolution 492
P. Hogeweg and B. Hesper
Matching, Maximizing and Melioration as Alternative Descriptions of Behaviour 498
Alasdair 1. Houston
An Adaptation Anomoly of a Genetic Algorithm 510
Yuval Davidor
Autonomous Agents, AI and Chaos Theory 518
George Kiss
Incrementing Intelligent Systems by Design 525
Brendan McGonigle
ANIMATS IN EDUCATION
Animal Simulations with *Logo: Massive Parallelism for the Masses 534
Mitchel Resnick
Lego Vehicles: A Technology for Studying Intelligent Systems 540
Jim Donnett and Tim Smithers
Author Index 551