Neural networks and intellect: using model-based concepts
Neural networks and intellect: using model-based concepts
Imitation in animals and artifacts
Imitation in animals and artifacts
Three sources of information in social learning
Imitation in animals and artifacts
Imitation or something simpler? modeling simple mechanisms for social information processing
Imitation in animals and artifacts
Social facilitation on the development of foraging behaviors in a population of autonomous robots
ECAL'07 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Advances in artificial life
Integrating Language and Cognition: A Cognitive Robotics Approach
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
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One of the advantages of sociality resides in the opportunity of exploiting the behavior of other individuals of the same group as a reliable source of information. In this paper we present an evolutionary simulation in which a population of 10 mobile robots has to develop a simple behavior consisting in the discrimination of two different foraging areas in the environment. We show that, given a minimal environmental pressure, a combination of learning oriented by social cues and selection at population level can lead to effective results. We further analyse the dynamic of the evolution of sociality, focusing on the fact that the global adaptiveness is a product of the combination of singularly non-adaptive processes and on the presence of a reinforcing positive feedback within populations, that is, the more 'social' a population is, the more advantageous it is to exploit social cues in that population.