Jason Noble, D. Cliff - 1996 - On simulating the evolution of communication

Noble, J. and Cliff, D. (1996) On simulating the evolution of communication. In Maes, P. and Mataric, M. and Meyer, J.-A. and Pollack, J. and Wilson, S. W., editors, SAB96. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

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Noble, J., & Cliff, D. (1996). On simulating the evolution of communication. In
Maes, P., Mataric, M., Meyer, J.A., Pollack, J., & Wilson, S. W. (Eds.),
From Animals to Animats 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Con
ference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior Cambridge, MA. The MIT Press
/ Bradford Books.
On Simulating the Evolution of Communication
Jason Noble and Dave Cliff
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH, U.K.
jasonn@cogs.susx.ac.uk; davec@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Abstract The prospects for modelling the evolution of communi cation are considered, including the problem of inten tional explanation, and the possibility of grounding sim ulation work in theoretical biology. The seminal work of MacLennan and Burghardt [16] on the evolution of co operative communication is described, and their exper iment replicated. Our results were broadly similar, in that evolved communication was observed, but specific differences are discussed. MacLennan and Burghardt's work is extended and their methodology critiqued in de tail. Their experiment remains a useful demonstration, but artefactual features make their results difficult to in terpret. Furthermore, we argue that too many factors are simultaneously investigated for any general princi ples to be extracted, and suggest an alternative program of narrowlyfocused simulations.
1 Modelling Communication What has to be happening such that we would describe two entities within a computer simulation as communi cating? Can communication behaviour evolve in simula tion? Do we learn anything about animal communication or the development of language from such work? Mac Lennan and Burghardt [16, p. 186] conclude that ``even in [a] simple synthetic world, communication may evolve that exhibits some of the richness of natural communi cation.'' The intent of this paper is to investigate the prospects for modelling communication through a criti cal replication of their ...

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@inproceedings{noble96onSimulating,
  author={J. Noble and D. Cliff},
  title={On simulating the evolution of communication},
  year={1996},
  address={Cambridge MA},
  editor={Maes, P. and Mataric, M. and Meyer, J.-A. and Pollack, J. and Wilson, S. W.},
  publisher={MIT Press},
  booktitle={SAB96},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/noble96onSimulating.html}
}

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