From Animals to Animats 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (Complex Adaptive Systems)

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September 9th-13th, 1996, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

From Animals to Animats 4 brings together the latest research at the frontier of an exciting new approach to understanding intelligence. The contributors represent a broad range of interests from artificial intelligence and robotics to ethology and the neurosciences. Unifying these approaches is the notion of "animat" -- an artificial animal, either simulated by a computer or embodied in a robot, which must survive and adapt in progressively more challenging environments. The 66 contributions focus particularly on well-defined models, computer simulations, and built robots in order to help characterize and compare various principles and architectures capable of inducing adaptive behavior in real or artificial animals.

Major topics, all from the perspective of adaptive behavior, include: The Animat Approach to Adaptive Behavior, Perception and Motor Control, Action Selection and Behavioral Sequences, Internal World Models and Navigation, Motivation and Emotions, Learning, Evolution, Coevolution, Collective Behavior.

Confabulation Theory: The Mechanism of Thought

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Confabulation Theory: The Mechanism of Thought
Robert Hecht-Nielsen
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ASIN: 3540496033

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Confabulation theory offers the first complete detailed explanation of the mechanism of cognition, i.e., thinking, an essential information processing capability of all enbrained Earth animals (bees, octopi, trout, ravens, humans, et al.). Concentrating on the human case, this book offers an hypothesis for the neuronal implementation of cognition, and explores the mathematics and methods of application of its mechanism. Thinking turns out to be starkly alien in comparison with all known technological approaches to information processing. While probably not yet scientifically testable, confabulation theory seems consistent with the facts of neuroscience. Beyond science, any complete detailed explanation of cognition can be investigated by applying it technologically. Multiple experiments of this nature are described in this book in complete detail. The results suggest that confabulation theory can provide the universal platform for building intelligent machines. In short, this book explains how thinking works and establishes the foundation for building machines that think.

With two DVDs of courseware, this book is suitable both as a text for professional self-study and for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in neuroscience, computational intelligence, cognitive science, linguistics and psychology, the prerequisites being elementary mathematics and neuroscience. Because of the theory’s implications for philosophy, education, medicine, anthropology and social science, this book will also be of interest to scientists in those domains.

Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings)

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Impressively good, but not an introduction
A first milestone in the study of Swarm Intelligence
Algorithms inspired by social insects

Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings)
Eric Bonabeau , Marco Dorigo , and Guy Theraulaz
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ASIN: 0195131592

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Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving systems with sophisticated collective intelligence. Composed of simple interacting agents, this intelligence lies in the networks of interactions among individuals and between individuals and the environment. A fascinating subject, social insects are also a powerful metaphor for artificial intelligence, and the problems they solve--finding food, dividing labor among nestmates, building nests, responding to external challenges--have important counterparts in engineering and computer science. This book provides a detailed look at models of social insect behavior and how to apply these models in the design of complex systems. The book shows how these models replace an emphasis on control, preprogramming, and centralization with designs featuring autonomy, emergence, and distributed functioning. These designs are proving immensely flexible and robust, able to adapt quickly to changing environments and to continue functioning even when individual elements fail. In particular, these designs are an exciting approach to the tremendous growth of complexity in software and information. Swarm Intelligence draws on up-to-date research from biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, operations research, and computer graphics, and each chapter is organized around a particular biological example, which is then used to develop an algorithm, a multiagent system, or a group of robots. The book will be an invaluable resource for a broad range of disciplines.

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Impressively good, but not an introduction.......2003-06-02

Compared to "Swarm intelligence" by James Kennedy, this one is not introductive but gets quite deep into the working of applying the "swarm" paradigm to optimization problems. I would rather recommmend for a person not used to meta-heuristics and optimization to first go to the book by Kennedy. Only if one is interested in using swarm for solving real optimization problems reading this one is a good idea.

This book illustrates several features of swarm behavior that can be leveraged for optimization. The authors writing style is equivalent to technical papers, so be prepared...this is no easy book.

A first milestone in the study of Swarm Intelligence.......2000-04-26

The book of Bonabeau, Dorigo, and Theraulaz is an excellent example of synergetic work between a physicist, an engineer, and a biologist. The Swarm Intelligence principles are first described and understood through models in natural systems and then translated in optimization algorithms, distributed algorithms for robotic control, and so on. Even if the book does not completely succeed in linking all three disciplines together - computer science, engineering, and biology - under a sound, common formalism, it represents an extremely up to date collection of work carried out worldwide in the field of Swarm Intelligence. I strongly believe in the future of this field and of its applications to problems hard to tackle with classical techniques. This book summarizes in an very equilibrated way the early, promising steps of Swarm Intelligence.

Algorithms inspired by social insects.......2000-02-14

A good synthesis of studies on swarm intelligence. It is fascinating to see how complex intelligent behavior can emerge from simple rules and numerous interactions without any plan or centralized coordination. Algorithms inspired by social insects can be applied in many disciplines. It is a book easy to understand but difficult to read through for those who don't love algorithms. It includes a very neat introduction to the subject with many clear examples. Everyone should read that part and at least throw a glance at the rest of the book.

Brain Mechanisms in Problem Solving and Intelligence: A Lesion Survey of the Rat Brain (Critical Issues in Neuropsychology)

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Brain Mechanisms in Problem Solving and Intelligence: A Lesion Survey of the Rat Brain (Critical Issues in Neuropsychology)
Robert Thompson , Francis M. Crinella , and Jen Yu
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The Evolution of Intelligence: Brain, Behavioral and Computational Approaches : 21st Annual Krost Symposium Seguin, Tex., March 22-23,2001 (Special Issue: Brain, Behavior and Evolution 2002, 1-2)

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The Evolution of Intelligence: Brain, Behavioral and Computational Approaches : 21st Annual Krost Symposium Seguin, Tex., March 22-23,2001 (Special Issue: Brain, Behavior and Evolution 2002, 1-2)

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Human and Machine Vision: Analogies and Divergencies (The Language of Science)

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Human and Machine Vision: Analogies and Divergencies (The Language of Science)

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Measuring Movement and Locomotion: From Invertebrates to Humans (Neuroscience Intelligence Unit)

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Measuring Movement and Locomotion: From Invertebrates to Humans (Neuroscience Intelligence Unit)

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The Mind, the Brain, and Complex Adaptive Systems: Proceedings (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings)

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Good but dated

The Mind, the Brain, and Complex Adaptive Systems: Proceedings (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings)
Harold J. Morowitz
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Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books)

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Good but dated.......2006-03-15

This is an interesting book, a compilation of papers presented in 1993, and, as a result, feels somewhat dated in 2006. The title gives one the sense that it will tackle the very difficult questions of mind and brain from the vantage point of complex adaptive systems. But many of the papers only approach that idea tangentially. The Santa Fe Institute is a terrific place, doing fascinating work, but this book did not live up to my expectations.

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Motion Vision

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In six parts, this book considers the extent to which computational, neural, and ecological constraints have shaped the mechanisms underlying motion vision:
- Early Motion Vision - Motion Signals for Local and Global Analysis - Optical Flow Patterns - Motion Vision in Action - Neural Coding of Motion - Motion in Natural Environments
Each topic is introduced by a keynote chapter which is accompanied by several companion articles. Written by an international group of experts in neurobiology, psychophysics, animal behaviour, machine vision, and robotics, the book is designed to explore as comprehensively as possible the present state of knowledge concerning the principal factors that have guided the evolution of motion vision.

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The Neuroscience of Animal Intelligence
Euan Macphail
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ASIN: 0231061447

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Due to its many potential benefits, including high electrical efficiency and low environmental emissions, solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology is the subject of extensive research and development efforts by national laboratories, universities, and private industries. In these proceedings, international scientists and engineers present recent technical progress on materials-related aspects of fuel cells including SOFC component materials, materials processing, and cell/stack design, performance, and stability. Emerging trends in electrochemical materials, electrodics, interface engineering, long-term chemical interactions, and more are included.

This book is compiled of papers presented at the Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January 22-27, 2006, Cocoa Beach, Florida. Organized and sponsored by The American Ceramic Society and The American Ceramic Society's Engineering Ceramics Division in conjunction with the Nuclear and Environmental Technology Division.

Advances in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings)

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Advances in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings)

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Advances in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells III: Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings

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Advances in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells III: Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings
Narottam P. Bansal
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ASIN: 0470196351

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Advances in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells III: Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings, Volume 28, Is 4 includes papers on recent technical progress by national laboratories, universities and private industries on solid oxide fuel cell technology including SOFC component materials, processing, cell/stack fabrication and design, electrochemical performance and stability, long-term chemical interactions, interface engineering, modeling, test procedures and performance analysis. Papers are from The American Ceramic Society?s 31st International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 21--26, 2007.

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