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From Animals to Animats 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
Author(s): Jean-Arcady Meyer (Editor), Alain Berthoz (Editor), Dario Floreano (Editor)
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Publication Date: 14 Aug. 2000
- Language: English
- Print length: 554 pages
- ISBN-10: 0262632004
- ISBN-13: 9780262632003
Book Description
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.
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About the Author
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.
Dario Floreano is Director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He is the coauthor of
Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines (MIT Press, 2000).Herbert L. Roitblat is Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Stewart W. Wilson is a scientist at The Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
