creators_name: Loula, Angelo
creators_name: Gudwin, Ricardo
creators_name: Queiroz, João
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2005-08-20
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:09
metadata_visibility: show
title: Symbolic Communication in Artificial Creatures: an experiment in Artificial Life 
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-lang
subjects: bio-ani-cog
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: bio-ani-behav
full_text_status: public
keywords: symbol, communication, artificial life, semiotics, C.S.Peirce
abstract: This is a project on Artificial Life where we simulate an ecosystem that allows cooperative interaction between agents, including intra-specific predator-warning communication in a virtual environment of predatory events. We propose, based on Peircean semiotics and informed by neuroethological constraints, an experiment to simulate the emergence of symbolic communication among artificial creatures. Here we describe the simulation environment and the creaturesrsquo control architectures, and briefly present obtained results.
date: 2004
date_type: published
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Loula, Angelo and Gudwin, Ricardo and Queiroz, João  (2004) Symbolic Communication in Artificial Creatures: an experiment in Artificial Life.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4507/1/Loula%2Bet%2Bal--2004--Symbolic-Communication-in-Artificial-Creatures.pdf