A new approach to exploring language emergence as boundedly optimal control in the face of environmental and cognitive constraints

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, ICCM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 7-12

  Bratman, Jeshua ^a   Shvartsman, Michael ^a   Lewis, Richard L ^a   Singh, Satinder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Bounded optimality; Cognitive architecture; Language emergence; Reinforcement learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURE; EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGES; LANGUAGE EMERGENCE; OPTIMALITY; SPECIFIC PROPERTIES;

EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84877767880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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