Social Behaviour

Anderson, C., Blackwell, P.G., Cannings, C., (1997) Stochastic Simulation of Ants That Forage by Expectation Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life, Phil Husbands and Inman Harvey (editors), MIT Press.
Bergstrom, C., Lachmann, M., (2000) Alarm Calls as Costly Signals of Anti-Predator Vigilance: The Watchful Babbler Game Submitted to Animal Behaviour.
Billard A., Dautenhahn K., (2000) Experiments in social robotics: grounding and use of communication in autonomous agents,Adaptive Behavior vol. 7:3/4.
Bonabeau, E., Dagorn, L., Freon, P. (1999) Scaling in Animal Group-Size Distributions To appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
Bonabeau, E., Theraulaz, G., Schatz, B., Deneubourg. J-L. (1998) Response Threshold Model of Division of Labour in a Ponerine Ant Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 265 (1998): 327-335
Bonabeau, E., Theraulaz, G., Deneubourg. J-L. (1999) Dominance Orders in Animal Societies: The Self-Organization Hypothesis Revisited To appear in Bull. Math. Biol.
Bonabeau, E., Theraulaz,G., Deneubourg, J-L., (1998) Fixed Response Thresholds and the Regulation of Division of Labor in Insect Societies SFI Working Paper 98-01-009, Abstract
Bonabeau, E., Theraulaz,G., Fourcassie, V., Deneubourg, J-L., (1998) The Phase-Ordering Kinetics of Cemetery Organization in Ants SFI Working Paper 98-01-008, Abstract
Bonabeau, E., Theraulaz,G., Cogne, F., (1998) The Design of Complex Architectures by Simple Agents SFI Working Paper 98-01-005, Abstract
Bonabeau, E., Sobkowski, A., Theraulaz,G., Deneubourg, J-L., (1998) Adaptive Task Allocation Inspired by a Model of Division of Labor in Social Insects SFI Working Paper 98-01-004, Abstract
Botee, H.M., Bonabeau, E. (1999) Evolving Ant Colony Optimization Advances in Complex Systems 1(2/3): 149-159.
Briscoe, T., (1997) Co-evolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device ACL-EACL97, cmp-lg/9705001
Bullock, S., Davis, J. N., & Todd, P. M. (1999) Simplicity rules the roost: Exploring birdbrain parental investment heuristics. In D. Floreano, J.-D. Nicoud, F. Mondada (Eds.) Fifth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL99), EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, 13-17 September (pp. 535-544). Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
Bullock, S. (2000). Something to talk about: Conflict and coincidence of interest in the evolution of shared meaning To be presented at the Third International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France, 3-6 April, 2000.
Bullock, S. (1998) A continuous evolutionary simulation model of the attainability of honest signalling equilibria. In C. Adami, R. K. Belew, H. Kitano, & C. E. Taylor (Eds.) Artificial Life VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life, Los Angeles, USA, 26-29 June (pp. 339-348). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books
Bullock, S. (1998) Net Costs and the Generality of the Handicap Principle. Presented at the Seventh International Behavioral Ecology Congress (ISBE98), Pacific Grove, California, 27 July-1 August, 1998.
Bullock, S. (1998) Human Handicap Signalling: Crippled by Informality? Presented at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Davis, California, 8-12 July, 1998.
Bullock, S., Cliff, D. (1997). The role of 'hidden preferences' in the artificial co-evolution of symmetrical signals, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 264, 505-511.
Bullock, S., (1998) A continuous evolutionary simulation model of the attainability of honest signalling equilibria Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFEVI), Los Angeles, USA, 26-29 June, 1998.
Bullock, S., (1997) An Exploration of Signalling Behaviour by both Analytic and Simulation Means for both Discrete and Continuous Models Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life, Phil Husbands and Inman Harvey (editors), MIT Press
Chialvo, D. R., Millonas, M. M., (1995) How swarms build cognitive maps. Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 95-03-033. Abstract
Cohen, M.D., Riolo, R.L., Axelrod, R. (1999) The Emergence of Social Organization in the Prisoner's Dilemma: How Context-Preservation and Other Factors Promote Cooperation Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 99-01-002
Collins, R. J. (1992) Studies in Artificial Evolution. PhD Dissertation, Dept. of Computer Science, UCLA. Part 1, Part 2, Part3.Abstract
Collins, R. J. , Jefferson, D. R. (1991) The Evolution of Sexual Selection and Female Choice First European Conference on Artificial Life.The MIT Press/Bradford Books Abstract.
Collins, R. J., Jefferson, D. R., (1991) AntFarm: Towards Simulated Evolution. In Farmer, J. D., Langton, C., Rasmussen, S., and Taylor, C. (eds.) Artificial Life II, Addison-Wesley, 1991. Abstract
Dautenhahn,K., (1998) Grounding Agent Sociality: The Social World is its Own Best Model From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation, a symposium at the 14th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research. Figure
Davis, J. N., Todd, P. M., & Bullock, S. (1999) Environment quality predicts parental provisioning decisions, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 266, 1791-1897
de Boer, B., (1997) Generating Vowel Systems in a Population of Agents Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life, Phil Husbands and Inman Harvey (editors), MIT Press
Deneubourg, J-L., Bonabeau, E., Theraulaz,G., (1998) Latency Time and Absence of Group Effect: Two Examples SFI Working Paper 98-01-007, Abstract
Di Paolo (1999) On the Evolutionary and Behavioral Dynamics of Social Coordination: Models and Theoretical Aspects. DPhil Thesis, University of Sussex.
Di Paolo, E. A. (2000) Behavioral coordination, structural congruence and entrainment in a simulation of acoustically coupled agents. Adaptive Behavior 8:1. Special issue on Simulation Models of Social Agents. K. Dautenhahn (guest ed.)
Di Paolo, E. A., (1998) Behavioural Coordination in Acoustically Coupled Agents. ICANN'98 8th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Skövde, Sweden, 2-4 September 1998, Special Module on Autonomous Robotics and Adaptive Behavior
Di Paolo, E. A., (1997) An investigation into the evolution of communication. Adaptive Behavior,. 6:2, p. 285 - 324
Di Paolo, E. A., (1997) Social coordination and spatial organization: Steps towards the evolution of communicationFourth European Conference on Artificial Life, Phil Husbands and Inman Harvey (editors), MIT Press
Dorigo M., V. Maniezzo & A. Colorni (1996). The Ant System: Optimization by a colony of cooperating agents. Technical Report No. 91-016, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, 26, 1, 29-41
Ficici, S. G., Pollack, J. B. (1999). Statistical Reasoning Strategies in the Pursuit and Evasion Domain. Fifth European Conference on Artificial Life. Dario Floreano, Jean-Daniel Nicoud, Francesco Mondada, eds. Springer, 1999.
Ficici, S. G., Pollack, J. B. (1998). Coevolving Communicative Behavior in a Linear Pursuer-Evader Game. Fifth International Conference of the Society for Adaptive Behavior. Pfeifer, Blumberg, Kobayashi, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.
Goldberg, D., Mataric, M.J., (1997) Interference as a Tool for Designing and Evaluating Multi-Robot Controllers, Proceedings, AAAI-97, Providence, Rhode Island, July 27-31, 1997, 637-642.
Hashimoto, T., (1997) UsageBased Structuralization of Relationship between Words Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life, Phil Husbands and Inman Harvey (editors), MIT Press
Hemelrijk, C. K. (1999) Effects Of Cohesiveness On Inter-Sexual Dominance Relationships And Spatial Structure Among Group-Living Virtual Entities Fifth European Conference on Artificial Life (ed. D. Floreano, Nicoud, J-D., Mondada, F.): Springer Verlag.
Hemelrijk, C. K. (1999) Self-Reinforcing Dominance Interactions Between Virtual Males and Females Hypothesis Generation For Primate Studies Adaptive Behavior. 7(4)
Hemelrijk, C. K. (1999) An individual-oriented model on the emergence of despotic and egalitarian societies Proceedings of the Royal Society London B: Biological Sciences. 266, 361-369.
Hemelrijk, C.K., (1997) Cooperation Without Genes, Games Or Cognition Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life, Phil Husbands and Inman Harvey (editors), MIT Press
Hemelrijk, C.K. (1996) Dominance interactions, spatial dynamics and emergent reciprocity in a virtual world. Proceedings of the fourth international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior. From Animals to animats 4. Ed. by P.Maes, M. J. Mataric, J-A Meyer, J. Pollack, S. W. Wilson, p. 545-552.
Hemelrijk, C.K., Lambrinos, D., (1994) Performance of two homing strategies in environments with differently distributed objects. From Perception to Action conference, ed. by P. Gaussier and Nicoud J-D. Lausanne, Switzerland, IEEE Computer Society Press, p.352-355.
Kirby, S,, Hurford, J. (1997) Learning, Culture and Evolution in the Origin of Linguistic Constraints Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life, Phil Husbands and Inman Harvey (editors), MIT Press.
Kube, C.R., Bonabeau, E. (1999) Cooperative Transport By Ants and Robots Submitted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
Lachmann, M., Sella, G., Jablonka, E. (1999) On Information Sharing and the Evolution of Collectives Submitted to Proc. Roy. Soc. B
Lund H. H., and Mayoh, B. H. (1995), Specialization in Populations of Artificial Neural Networks. Proceedings of the 5th Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, 1995.
Lund H. H. (1995), Specialization under Social Conditions in Shared Environments. In F. Moran, A. Moreno, J.J. Merelo, and P Chacon (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Artificial Life, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Verlag.
Lund H. H., Parisi, D. (1995), Pre-adaptation in Populations of Neural Networks. Artificial Life 2:2 1995.
MacLennan, B., (1994) Synthetic Ethology and the Evolution of Cooperative Communication, by Bruce J. MacLennan and Gordon M. Burghardt, 1994. Adaptive Behavior, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 1993, pp. 161-187. Figures: fig 1, fig 2, fig 3, fig 4, fig 5, fig 6, fig 7, fig 8.
Mataric, M.J.,(1998) Using Communication to Reduce Locality in Distributed Multi-Agent Learning, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, special issue on Learning in Distributed Artificial Intelligence Systems, Gerhard Weiss, ed., fall 1998.
Mataric, M.J.,(1997) Reinforcement Learning in the Multi-Robot Domain, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1997, 73-83.
Mataric, M.J.,(1997) Learning Social Behavior, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 1997.
Mataric, M.J.,(1997) Behavior-Based Control: Examples from Navigation, Learning, and Group Behavior, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, special issue on Software Architectures for Physical Agents,Vol. 9, Nos. 2-3, Hexmoor, Horswill, and Kortenkamp, eds., 1997.
Mataric, M.J.,(1997) Using Communication to Reduce Locality in Distributed Multi-Agent Learning, Proceedings, AAAI-97, Providence, Rhode Island, July 27-31, 1997, 643-648.
Mataric, M.J., (1996) Learning in Multi-Robot Systems, in Adaptation and Learning in Multi-Agent Systems, Gerhard Weiss and Sandip Sen, eds., Lecture Notes In Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Vol. 1042, Springer-Verlag 1996, 152-163.
Mataric, M.J., Nilsson, M., Simsarian, K., (1995) Cooperative Multi-Robot Box-Pushing Proceedings, IROS-95, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995.
Mataric, M.J., (1995) Evaluation of Learning Performance of Situated Embodied Agents in Proceedings, Third European Conference on Artificial Life, Granada, Spain, June 4-6, 1995.
Mataric, M. J. (1995), Designing and Understanding Adaptive Group Behavior, Adaptive Behavior 4(1), December 1995.
Mataric, M. J. (1995), Issues and Approaches in the Desing og Collective Autonomous Agents, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 16, Nos. 2 - 4, December 1995, 321-331.
Mataric, M. J. (1994), Interaction and Intelligent Behavior MIT EECS PhD Thesis, May 1994, MIT AI Lab Tech Report AITR-1495.
Mataric, M. J. (1994), Learning to Behave Socially in Proceedings, From Animals to Animats 3, Third International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-94).
Mataric, M. J. (1993), Kin Recognition, Similarity, and Group Behavior in Proceedings, Fifteenth Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference, Boulder, Colorado, June 1993, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 705-710.
Mikhailov, A. S., Zanette, D. H. (1999) Noise-induced breakdown of coherent collective motion in swarms, To appear in Phys. Rev. E.
Miller, J. H., Butts, C. Rode, D., (1998) Communication and Cooperation Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 98-03-023.
Noble, J. (2000). Talk is cheap: Evolved strategies for communication and action in asymmetrical animal contests. In Proc. Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior.
Noble, J. (1999). Cooperation, conflict and the evolution of communication. Adaptive Behavior. 7(4)
Noble, J. (In press). Co-operation, competition and the evolution of pre-linguistic communication. In Knight, C., Studdert-Kennedy, M., & Hurford, J. (Eds.), The Emergence of Language. Cambridge University Press.
Noble, J. (1999). Sexual signalling in an artificial population: When does the handicap principle work?In Floreano, D., Mondada, F., & Nicoud, J.-D. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'99). Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Noble, J. & Todd, P. M. (In press). Imitation or something simpler? Modelling simple mechanisms for social information processing. In Dautenhahn, K. & Nehaniv, C. L. (Eds.), Imitation in Animals and Artifacts. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Noble, J., Tuci, E., Todd, P. M. (In press). Social learning and information sharing: an evolutionary simulation model of foraging in Norway rats. In Floreano, D., Mondada, F., & Nicoud, J.-D. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'99). Springer- Verlag, Berlin.
Noble, J., Todd, P. M. (1999). Is it really imitation? A review of simple mechanisms in social information gathering. Paper presented at the Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour Convention, Edinburgh, UK, 6-9 April.
Noble, J., (1998) The Evolution of Animal Communication Systems: Questions of Function Examined through Simulation. DPhil Thesis, University of Sussex.
Noble, J., (1998) Evolved Signals: Expensive Hype vs. Conspiratorial Whispers In Proc. of the 6th International conference on Artificial Life, C. Adami, R.K. Belew, H. Kitano, C.E. Taylor (eds.) MIT Press.
Noble, J. (1998) Tough guys don't dance: Intention movements and the evolution of signalling in animal contests. Proceedings of SAB'98
Noble, J. and Cliff, D. (1996). On simulating the evolution of communication. In Maes, P., Mataric, M., Meyer, J.-A., Pollack, J. and Wilson, S.W. (Eds.). From Animals to Animats 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. MIT Press
Nomura, T. (1996) Generation of Relations between Individuals based on a Stochastic Automaton and an Analogy from Social Psychology, In Proc. ALIFE V Poster Presentations, pp.125-132.
Oliphant, M. (1997) Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language. Doctoral dissertation. Department of Cognitive Science. University of California, San Diego.
Rauch, E. M., Millonas, M. M., Chialvo, D. R., (1995) Pattern Formation and Functionality in Swarm Models. Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 95-08-073. Abstract and HTML.
Reynolds, C.W., (1987) Flocks, Herds and Schools: A distributed Behavioral Model. Computer Graphics, 21(4) (SIGGRAPH '87 Conference Proceedings) pp 25 - 34.
Schneider Fontan, M., Mataric, M.J.,(1996) A Study of Territoriality: The Role of Critical Mass in Adaptive Task Division in Proceedings, From Animals to Animats 4, Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-96), Pattie Maes, Maja Mataric, Jean-Arcady Meyer, Jordan Pollack, and Stewart W. Wilson, eds, MIT Press/Bradford Books 1996, 553-561.
Sella, G., Lachmann, M. (1999) On the Dynamic Persistence of Cooperation: How Lower Fitness Induces Higher Survivability Submitted to Physical Review E
Seth, A.K., (1997) Interaction, Uncertainty, and the Evolution of Complexity Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life ECAL'97, Phil Husbands and Inman Harvey (editors), MIT Press
Seth, A.K., (1999) A Cybernetic Perspective on the Role of Noise in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma University of Sussex Cognitive Science Research Paper CSRP-506.
Sims, K. (1994) Evolving 3D Morphology and Behavior by Competition. Proceedings of Artificial Life IV, R. Brooks and P. Maes Eds., MIT Press.
Steels, L., McIntyre, A. (1997) Spatially Distributed Naming Games. Experiments of language evolution in dynamically evolving and spatially situated language communicaties. Submitted to ECAL 97.
Steels, L., Vogt, P. (1997) Grounding adaptive language games in robotic agents. Physical implementation of language games and meaning creation. Submitted to ECAL 97.
Steels, L. (1996) Discovering the competitors. In: Adaptive Behavior 4(2). 1996.
Steels, L. (1996) Synthesising the origins of language and meaning using co-evolution, self-organisation and level formation. In: Hurford, J. (ed.) (1997) Evolution of Human Language. Edinburgh Univ. Press. Edinburgh.
Steels, L. (1996) Perceptually grounded meaning creation. In: Tokoro, M. (ed.) (1996) Proceedings of ICMAS-96, Kyoto 1996. Calif, AAAI Press.
Steels, L. (1996) The Spontaneous Self-organization of an Adaptive Language. To appear in: Muggleton, S. (ed.) Machine Intelligence 15. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Steels, L. (1996) Emergent Adaptive Lexicons. In: Maes, P. (ed.) (1996) Proceedings of the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior Conference. The MIT Press.
Steels, L. (1996) A self-organizing spatial vocabulary in Artificial Life 2(3).
Steels, L. (1996) Self-organizing vocabularies in Langton, C. (ed.) Proceedings of Alife V, Nara, Japan.
Theraulaz,G., Bonabeau, E., Deneubourg, J-L., (1998) Response Threshold Reinforcement and Division of Labor in Insect Societies SFI Working Paper 98-01-006, Abstract
Tuci, E., Noble, J., Todd, P. M. (1999). I'll have what she's having: A simulation analysis of the copying of food preferences in Norway rats. Paper presented at the Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour Convention, Edinburgh, UK, 6-9 April.
Vaughan, R.T., Stoy, K., Sukhatme, G.S., Mataric, M.J. (2000) Go ahead, make my day: robot conflict resolution by aggressive competition Proc. 6th Int. Conf. Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, Paris, France.
Werger, B.B., Mataric, M.J.,(1996) Robotic "Food" Chains: Externalization of State and Program for Minimal-Agent Foraging in Proceedings, From Animals to Animats 4, Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-96), Pattie Maes, Maja Mataric, Jean-Arcady Meyer, Jordan Pollack, and Stewart W. Wilson, eds, MIT Press/Bradford Books 1996, 625-634.
Zaera, N., Cliff, D., Bruten, J., (1996) (Not) Evolving Collective Behaviour in Proceedings, From Animals to Animats 4, Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-96), Pattie Maes, Maja Mataric, Jean-Arcady Meyer, Jordan Pollack, and Stewart W. Wilson, eds, MIT Press/Bradford Books 1996.

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