The evolution of information suppression in communicating robots with conflicting interests

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 37, 2009, Pages 15786-15790

  Mitri, Sara ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a   Keller, Laurent ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cues; Signals; Variation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLUE LIGHT; CAMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FOOD; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MASS COMMUNICATION; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 70349441143     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903152106     Document Type: Article

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