The emergence of communication in evolutionary robots

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1811, 2003, Pages 2397-2421

  Marocco, Davide ^a,c   Cangelosi, Angeld ^b   Nolfi, Stefano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial life; Evolutionary robotics; Language evolution; Nouns; Verbs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142123405     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1252     Document Type: Article

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