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de Jong, E. D. (1999) Analyzing the Evolution of Communication from a Dynamical Systems Perspective. In ECAL99, pages 689--693. Springer-Verlag.
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Analyzing the Evolution of Communication
from a
Dynamical Systems Perspective ?
Edwin D. de Jong
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Artificial Intelligence Lab
Pleinlaan 2, B­1050 Brussels, Belgium
edwin@arti.vub.ac.be
http://arti.vub.ac.be
Abstract. We study the evolution of communication where concepts are developed individually by agents and relations between concepts and forms (words, signals) are learned through interaction with other agents. By constructing concepts based on experience with the same environ­ ment, agents develop similar conceptual systems. Concepts represent sit­ uations in the environment. The system of associations between forms and meanings is viewed as a dynamical system. This paper presents first results with investigating the phase space of the system. The anal­ ysis contributed to understanding the interaction between association strengths of different agents and of different meanings.
Introduction In studying the evolution of communication, an important question is that of how stable systems connecting concepts and forms (words, signals) may come about. In this paper, we will be investigating the case where these connections are learned by a group of agents in a shared environment. The concepts themselves are formed by the agents based on experience within the environment using autonomous concept formation [de Jong, 1999]. Although the fact that simple local adaptive behavior of agents causes a sys­ tem of communication to emerge is interesting in itself, a deeper understanding of this process is valuable. Since the complete system of agents, concepts and forms is a complex adaptive system (see e.g. [Steels, 1996a], [Steels, 1997]) con­ taining a large and varying number of changing elements, it is difficult to predict the behavior of the system given the rules which govern it. A viewpoint that has been found to be more appropriate for these types of systems is the dynamic systems approach. In the literature, several examples of dynamic ...
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@inproceedings{dejong99analyzingThe,
  author={E. D. de Jong},
  title={Analyzing the Evolution of Communication from a Dynamical Systems Perspective},
  year={1999},
  pages={689-693},
  publisher={Springer-Verlag},
  booktitle={ECAL99},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/dejong99analyzingThe.html}
}

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