On the information theoretic implications of embodiment - Principles and methods

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4850 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 76-86

  Pfeifer, Rolf ^a   Lungarella, Max ^b   Sporns, Olaf ^c   Kuniyoshi, Yasuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Information processing; Materials; Morphology

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTROL THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

EMBODIED SYSTEMS; INFORMATION STRUCTURE;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 37149027938     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77296-5_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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