Anchoring of semiotic symbols

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 43, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 109-120

  Vogt, Paul ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive language games; Anchoring problem; Physical grounding; Semiotics; Symbol grounding problem

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CODES (SYMBOLS); COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; ROBOTICS;

SEMIOTIC SYMBOLS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0037475198     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(02)00353-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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