Elements of information theory
Elements of information theory
Causality: models, reasoning, and inference
Causality: models, reasoning, and inference
Homeotaxis: Coordination with Persistent Time-Loops
SAB '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior: From Animals to Animats
Emergence of genetic coding: an information-theoretic model
ECAL'07 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Advances in artificial life
Detecting non-trivial computation in complex dynamics
ECAL'07 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Advances in artificial life
Information transfer by particles in cellular automata
ACAL'07 Proceedings of the 3rd Australian conference on Progress in artificial life
How information and embodiment shape intelligent information processing
50 years of artificial intelligence
Empowerment for continuous agent-environment systems
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Impoverished empowerment: 'meaningful' action sequence generation through bandwidth limitation
ECAL'09 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Advances in artificial life: Darwin meets von Neumann - Volume Part II
Hierarchical behaviours: getting the most bang for your bit
ECAL'09 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Advances in artificial life: Darwin meets von Neumann - Volume Part II
Optimizing potential information transfer with self-referential memory
UC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Unconventional Computation
Evolving spatiotemporal coordination in a modular robotic system
SAB'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on From Animals to Animats: simulation of Adaptive Behavior
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The classical approach to using utility functions suffers from the drawback of having to design and tweak the functions on a case by case basis. Inspired by examples from the animal kingdom, social sciences and games we propose empowerment, a rather universal function, defined as the information-theoretic capacity of an agent’s actuation channel. The concept applies to any sensorimotoric apparatus. Empowerment as a measure reflects the properties of the apparatus as long as they are observable due to the coupling of sensors and actuators via the environment.