Intelligent meaning creation in a clumpy world helps communication

Artificial Life

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 175-190

  Smith, Andrew D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Language evolution; Meaning creation; Meaning similarity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; GAME THEORY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DISCRIMINATION GAMES; INTELLIGENT MEANING; LANGUAGE EVOLUTION; MEANING SIMILARITY;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0042284821     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/106454603322221513     Document Type: Article

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