How (not) to model autonomous behaviour

BioSystems

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 409-423

  Di Paolo, Ezequiel A ^a   Iizuka, Hiroyuki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b FUTURE UNIVERSITY HAKODATE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavioural preference; Biological autonomy; Evolutionary robotics; Modelling autonomous behaviour; Self setting of goals

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; MODELING; PLASTICITY; ROBOTICS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PLASTICITY; ROBOTICS;

EID: 37549046819     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2007.05.016     Document Type: Article

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