Scaffolding language emergence using the autotelic principle

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, CI-ALife 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 325-332

  Steels, Luc ^a,b   Wellens, Pieter ^b  

^a SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORY   (France)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; SEMANTIC WEB;

AUTONOMOUS SCAFFOLDING; AUTOTELIC PRINCIPLE; SEMANTIC COMPLEXITY;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 34548762955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ALIFE.2007.367813     Document Type: Conference Paper

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