Anigrafs : experiments in cooperative cognitive architecture /

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Author / Creator:Richards, Whitman, author.
Imprint:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]
Description:xiii, 148 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10197606
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ISBN:9780262527781
0262527782
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I. Preliminaries: From Babble to Barter and Beyond
  • 1. From Vehicles to Anigrafs
  • 2. Intrinsic Knowledge
  • 3. Social Connections: Bartering
  • 4. Anigraf Abstraction
  • Part II. Animacy: Action Agents
  • Anigrafl: Simple Precursors
  • 1.0. Precursors: Two Prototypes
  • 1.1. Dynamics: Top Cycle Definition and Example
  • 1.2. From Cycles to Chaos
  • 1.3. An Example
  • 1.4. Summary
  • Anigraf2: Swimmers: Beginning to Move
  • 2.0. Movement
  • 2.1. Jellyfish
  • 2.2. The Flagellum
  • 2.3. "Smart" Tails
  • 2.4. Cooperative versus Competitive Networks
  • Anigraf3: Walkers: Syncopated Limbs
  • 3.0. Enhancing Behaviors
  • 3.1. Centipede Anigrafs
  • 3.2. Cockroach Anigraf
  • 3.3. Quadruped Gaits
  • 3.4. Gait Switching
  • 3.5. From Gaits to Goals
  • Anigraf4: Tally Machines
  • 4.1. Plurality Voting
  • 4.2. Borda Method
  • 4.3. Rank Vector
  • 4.4. Condorcet Method
  • 4.5. A Condorcet Network
  • 4.6. Top-cycle Tally
  • 4.7. Success of g k
  • 4.8. The Condorcet Advantage
  • Part III. Cognition: Agents With Beliefs
  • Anigraf5: Dancers: Mating Games
  • 5.0. Two to Tango
  • 5.1. Beyond Reflexes
  • 5.2. Proxy Votes
  • 5.3. A Duet
  • 5.4. Social Twins
  • Anigraf6: Planners: Event Sequencing
  • 6.1. A New Level of Complexity
  • 6.2. Depiction
  • 6.3. Event Sequence Control
  • 6.4. Beyond Brokers
  • Anigraf7: Explorers: New Worlds
  • 7.0. Expanding Horizons
  • 7.1. Free Agents
  • 7.2. Imposing Constraints
  • 7.3. Graphical Evolution
  • 7.4. Anigraf Fitness and Information
  • Anigraf8: Alliances: Coordinating Diversity
  • 8.0. Heterogeneity
  • 8.1. Similarity and Dissimilarity
  • 8.2. Similarity versus Outcomes
  • 8.3. Coordination and Diversity
  • 8.4. Clique Formation
  • 5.0. Social Networks
  • Part IV. Metagrafs
  • 9.1. Representational Forms
  • 9.2. Complementarity
  • 9.3. Decompositions
  • 9.4. Evolutions
  • 9.5. From Decomposition to Composition
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix: Phase Dots
  • Glossary
  • Index