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Bayesian learning of visual chunks by human observers.
Orban G., Lengyel M., József Fiser Aslin, RN

Collective decision and foraging patterns in ants and honeybees
Detrain C., Deneubourg J.-L.
Advances in Insect Physiology. In press
Computational Models in the Debate over Language Learnability
Kaplan F., Oudeyer P.-Y., Bergen, B.
Infant and Child Development, 17 (1), 55-80
Did Neanderthals and other early humans sing? Seeking the biological roots of music in the territorial advertisements of primates, lions, hyenas, and wolves
Hagen E.H., Hammerstein P.
In press
Dynamic metastability in the two-dimensional Potts model
Loreto V., Alberto Petri, Miguel Ibanez de Berganza
arXiv:0706.3534v1
Evolution of Signalling in a Multi-Robot System: Categorization and Communication.
Ampatzis C., Tuci E., Dorigo M., Trianni V.
Adaptive Behavior, Vol. 16, No 1, pp. 5–26, 2008.
Evolving coordinated group behaviours through maximization of mean mutual information
Trianni V., Nolfi S., Sperati V.
Swarm Intelligence Journal, Special Issue on Swarm Robotics.
Hippocampal contributions to control: the third way.
Lengyel M., Peter Dayan

How producer biases can favor the evolution of communication: An analysis of evolutionary dynamics
Parisi D., Mirolli M.
Adaptive Behavior, vol. 16(1), pp. 27-52
In-depth analysis of the Naming Game dynamics: the homogeneous mixing case


On the coupling between agent internal and agent/environmental dynamics: Development of spatial representations in evolving autonomous robots.
Gigliotta O., Nolfi S.
Special Issue on Behaviour and Mind as Complex Adaptive Systems. Adaptive Behaviour.
Statistical physics of social dynamics


The effect of dispersal and neighbourhood in games of cooperation.
Szamado S., Ferenc Szalai Istvan Scheuring

Vocabulary growth in collaborative tagging systems


Who is the leader? Dynamic role allocation through communication in a population of homogeneous robots
Gigliotta O., Mirolli M., Nolfi S.
Connection Science
Chemistry at the oil-water interface: Self-propelled oil droplets
Ikegami T., Hanczyc M., Toyota T., Packard N., Sugawara T.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 129(30), pp. 9386 – 9391.
Emergence of language

Nature Physics, vol. 3, pp. 758-760.
Emergent behaviour in agent networks: self-organization in wasp and open source communities
Valverde S., Theraulaz G., Gautrais J., Fourcassié V., Ricard V.Solé
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Evolution of Birdsong Syntax by Interjection Communication
Ikegami T., Sasahara K.
Artificial Life, vol. 13, pp. 1-19.
Evolution of Prehension Ability in an Anthropomorphic Neurorobotic Arm
Massera G., Cangelosi A., Nolfi S.
Frontiers in Neurobotics, vol. 1, art. 4, pp. 1-9
Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication in Robots
Floreano D., Mitri S., Magnenat S., Keller L.
Current Biology, vol. 17, pp. 514-519.
From "situated" to "cognitive" robotics through Theoretical Psychology: the role of language
Parisi D., Mirolli M.
special issue of "New ideas in psychology"
In search of the neural circuits of intrinsic motivation
Kaplan F., Oudeyer P.-Y.
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 1(1):225-236 2007.
Individual discrimination capabilities to collective decision making
Halloy J., Millor J., Deneubourg J.-L., Amè J.M.
Journal of Theoretical Biology
K-Scaffold Subgraphs of Complex Networks
Corominas B., Sole R., Valverde S., Rodriguez-Caso C.,
in EuroPhysics Letters
Psychological adaptations for assessing gossip believability
Hagen E.H., Hess N.H.
Human Nature
Self-organization Patterns in Wasp and Open-source communities
Sole R., Theraulaz G., Gautrais J., Fourcassié V.
IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 36-40
Simulating Active Perception and Mental Imagery with Embodied Chaotic Itinerancy
Ikegami T.
Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol.14, pp.111-125.
Un robot motivé pour apprendre : le rôle des motivations intrinsèques dans le développement sensorimoteur
Kaplan F., Oudeyer P.-Y.
Enfance, 1:46-58 2007.
What is intrinsic motivation? A typology of computational approaches
Oudeyer P.-Y., Kaplan F.
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, vol. 1:2.
Agreement dynamics on small-world networks
Baronchelli A., Loreto V., Luca Dall'Asta (DELIS) Alain Barrat (DELIS)
Europhysics Letters, 73, pp. 969
Behaviour as a Complex Adaptive System: On the role of Self-Organization in the Development of Individual and Collective Behaviour
Nolfi S.
ComplexUs
Collective decision-making based on individual discrimination capability in pre-social insects
Millor J., Halloy J., Deneubourg J.-L., Amé JM., Sempo G.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4095, pp. 713-724.
Comment on signalling theory, strategic interaction and symbolic capital
Hagen E.H., Hammerstein P.
Current Anthropology, vol. 46, pp. 241-242.
Conditions for the emergence of combinatorial communication
Ferrer i Cancho R., Loreto V.
under review
Cooperative Hole-Avoidance in a Swarm-bot
Dorigo M., Nolfi S., Trianni V.
Robotics & Autonomous Systems, vol. 54 (2), pp. 97-103
Cultural Transmission Between and Within Generations
Parisi D., Alberto Acerbi
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation vol. 9, no. 1
Darwin for All Seasons
Szathmary E.
Science, vol. 313, pp. 306-307
Discovering Communication.
Oudeyer P.-Y., Kaplan F.
Oudeyer, P-Y. and Kaplan, F. Discovering Communication. Connection Science, 18(2):189-206 2006.
Emergence of Communication in Embodied Agents: Co-Adapting Communicative and Non-Communicative Behaviours.
Nolfi S.
Connection Science: Special Issue on The emergence of Language, Neural and Adaptive Agent Models
Experiments on the Emergence of Human Communication.
Steels L.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(8):347-349 August 2006.
From individual discrimination capabilities to collective decision making
Millor J., Halloy J., Deneubourg J.-L., Amé JM.
Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 239, pp. 313-323
Game theory and human evolution: A critique of some recent interpretations of experimental games
Hagen E.H., Hammerstein P.
Theoretical Population Biology.
Information-theoretic framework for unsupervised activity classification.
Kaplan F., Hafner V.
in Advanced Robotics, 20 (10) : 1087-1103
Integration of an autonomous artificial agent in an insect society: Experimental validation
Halloy J., Deneubourg J.-L., Sempo G., Depickere S., Ame JM., Detrain C.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4095, pp. 703-712
Interoperability through Emergent Semantics. A Dynamics Approach.
Steels L., P. Hanappe
in Journal on Data Semantics. LNCS, Springer Verlag, Berlin. Vol. 4090, p.143-167.
Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development.
Oudeyer P.-Y., Kaplan F., Hafner V.
Oudeyer, P-Y., Kaplan, F. and Hafner, V. Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2007. to appear
Language Evolution as a Darwinian Process: Computational Studies
Oudeyer P.-Y., Kaplan F.
Oudeyer, P-Y. and Kaplan, F. (accepted, in press) Language Evolution as a Darwinian Process: Computational Studies, Cognitive Processing.
Microscopic activity patterns in the Naming Game
Baronchelli A., Luca Dall\'Asta (DELIS)
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39, 14851-14867 (2006).
Non-equilibrium dynamics of language games on complex networks
Baronchelli A., Loreto V., Luca Dall\'Asta (DELIS) Alain Barrat (DELIS)
Phys. Rev. E 74, 036105 (2006).
Non-equilibrium phase transition in negotiation dynamics
Baronchelli A., Loreto V., Luca Dall\'Asta (DELIS) Alain Barrat (DELIS)
submitted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Ring structures and mean first passage time in networks
Baronchelli A., Loreto V.
In press in Phys. Rev. E
Selective scenarios for the emergence of natural language
Szamado S., Szathmary E.
TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution Vol.21 No.10
Selective scenarios for the emergence of natural language
Szamado S., Szathmary E.

Semiotic Dynamics for Embodied Agents.
Steels L.
IEEE Intelligent Systems, 21(3):32-38 May/June 2006.
Sex differences in indirect aggression: Psychological evidence from young adults
Hagen E.H., Hess N.
Evolution and Human Behavior.
Sharp transition towards shared vocabularies in multi-agents systems
Baronchelli A., Caglioti E., Loreto V., Steels L., Maddalena Felici
Journal of Statistical Mechanics, vol. P06014
The challenges of joint attention
Kaplan F., Hafner V.
in Interaction Studies, 7 (2): 129-134
The Strategy Concept and John Maynard Smith’s Influence on Theoretical Biology
Hagen E.H., Hammerstein P., Laubichler M.

The structure of syntactic dependency networks: insights from recent advances in network theory
Ferrer i Cancho R.
In: "Problems of quantitative linguistics". Levickij V. and Altmman G. (eds.).
Topology induced coarsening in Language Games
Baronchelli A., Loreto V., Luca Dall\'Asta (DELIS), Alain Barrat (DELIS)
Phys. Rev. E 73, 015102(R) (2006).
Aux sources du langage : l'auto-organisation de la parole
Oudeyer P.-Y.
Cahiers Romans de Sciences Cognitives, In Cognito, 2(2):1-24 2005.
Can simple models explain Zipf's law in all cases?
Ferrer i Cancho R., Vito Servedio (DELIS)
Glottometrics, 11, 1-8 (2005).
Comparison of voter and glauber ordering dynamics on networks
Castellano C., Cecconi F., Loreto V., Parisi D., Alain Barrat
Phys. Rev. E 71, 066107 (2005)
Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories through Language. A Case Study for Colour.
Steels L., Belpaeme Tony
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28:469-529.
How can we explain the emergence of a language which benefits the hearer but not the speaker?
Parisi D., Mirolli M.
Connection Science, vol. 17 (3-4), pp. 307-324.
How phonological structures can be culturally selected for learnability.
Oudeyer P.-Y.
Adaptive Behavior, 13(4), pp. 269—280
Language Networks: Their Structure, Function and Evolution
Sole R., Corominas B., Valverde S., Steels L.
Santa Fe Institute Working Paper (05-12-042)
Network Topology and self-consistency in Language Games
Corominas B., Sole R.

Semiotic Dynamics and Collaborative Tagging
Cattuto C., Loreto V., Pietronero L.
Published in the Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Semiotic dynamics in online social communities
Cattuto C., Loreto V., Pietronero L.
In press in European Physical Journal C
Simple models of distributed coordination
Kaplan F.
Connection Science, 17(3-4):249-270 2005.
The Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Structure: From Lexical to Grammatical Communication Systems
Steels L.
Connection Science, 17(3-4):213-230 Sep-Dec 2005.
The Playground Experiment: Task-Independent Development of a Curious Robot
Oudeyer P.-Y., Kaplan F., Hafner, V. V., Whyte, A.
In Bank, D. and Meeden, L., editor, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Developmental Robotics, 2005, pages 42-47, Stanford, California, 2005.
The Robots are Coming
Holmquist L.E.
ACM , May-June 2005, ACM Press
The Role of Construction Grammar in Fluid Language Grounding.
Steels L.
Submitted
The self-organisation of combinatoriality and phonotactics in vocalization systems
Oudeyer P.-Y.
Connection Science, 17(3-4):pp. 325-341 2005.
The Self-Organization of Speech Sounds
Oudeyer P.-Y.
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 233(3):435-449 2005.
When language breaks into pieces. A conflict between communication through isolated signals and language
Ferrer i Cancho R.
In press in Biosystems
ZIpf\'s law from a communicative phase transition
Ferrer i Cancho R.
Eur. Phys. J. B 47, 449-457 (2005).
Adaptive internal value systems for developmental
Kaplan F., Oudeyer P.-Y.
Autonomous Mental Development Newsletter.
Conventionalization of linguistic knowledge under communicative constraints

Submitted to the Journal of Biological Theory
Emergence of Communication in Embodied Agents Evolved for the Ability to Solve a Collective Navigation Problem
Marocco D., Nolfi S.
D. Marocco, S. Nolfi (submitted). Emergence of Communication in Embodied Agents Evolved for the Ability to Solve a Collective Navigation Problem. Connection Science
Gestures of despair and hope: A strategic reinterpretation of deliberate self-harm
Hagen E.H.
Under review
Informational Warfare
Hagen E.H., Nicole Hess
Human Nature.
Natural psychology
Hagen E.H., Symons D.
In The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies, Gangestad S and Simpson J, eds. Guilford Press
Revealing the paradox of drug reward in human evolution
Hagen E.H., Hammerstein P., R. J. Sullivan
under review
Robustness: A key to evolutionary design
Hagen E.H., Hammerstein P., Herz AVM., Herzel H.
Biological Theory
Self-contained algorithms to detect communities in networks
Castellano C., Parisi D., Cecconi F., Loreto V., Radicchi R.
Eur. Phys J. B., vol. 38, pp. 311
The second wave of economics in biology
Hagen E.H., Hammerstein P.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 20, pp. 604-609

Conferences

An evolutionary approach on lexicon alignment
Szathmary E., Steels L., Istvan Zachar
EVOLANG 2008 - Evolution of Language Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 11- 15 March 2008.
An evolutionary approach on the origin of lexicon and grammar
Szathmary E., Steels L., Istvan Zachar
Third European PhD Complexity School (Evolution in biological systems: from molecules to life and language), Turin, Italy (Organized by ISI Foundation), 4-8 February 2008.
Artificial neural network parsing grammatical sentences.
Ittzes P., Szathmary E., Anna Fedor
Third European PhD Complexity School (Evolution in biological systems: from molecules to life and language), Turin, Italy (Organized by ISI Foundation), 4-8 February 2008.
Constraint-based Compositional Semantics
Van den Broeck W.
In Luís Seabra Lopes, Tony Belpaeme, Stephen J. Cowley, editor, Language and Robots: Proceedings of the Symposium. 10-12 December 2007, Aveiro, Portugal, pages 93-98, December 2007. Universidade de Aveiro
Constraint-based Compositional Semantics
Van den Broeck W.
In Andrew D. M. Smith and Kenny Smith and Ramon Ferrer i Chancho, editor, The Evolution of Language: Evolang 7, 2008. World Scientific.
The emergence of semantic roles in Fluid Construction Grammar.
Van Trijp R.
In Smith, Andrew, Smith, Kenny and Ferrer i Cancho, Ramon, editor, The Evolution of Language. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG 7), pages 346-353, Singapore, 2008. World Scientific Publishing.
A Neural Network Model for Explaining the Asymmetries between Linguistic Production and Linguistic Comprehension
Mirolli M., Cecconi F., Parisi D.
in Vosniadou S., Kayser D., Protopapas A. (eds.), Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference, Hove, Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 670-675.
Agreement dynamics on interaction networks with diverse topologies
Baronchelli A., Loreto V., Alain Barrat, Luca Dall'Asta
Chaos, vol. 17, pp. 026111
Back to the future: episodic memories for control.
Lengyel M., Peter Dayan
Computation and Dynamics Workshop, Hossegor (France), 15-18 September 2007.
Facilitating Mobile Music Sharing and Social Interaction with Push!Music
Hakansson M.
Håkansson, M., Rost, M., Jacobsson M. and Holmquist, L.E. Facilitating Mobile Music Sharing and Social Interaction with Push!Music. In Proceedings of HICSS-40 2007, Hawaii, USA, January 3-6, 2007.
Flexible Word Meaning in Embodied Agents
Loetzsch M., Wellens, P.
Workshop on Social Learning in Embodied Agents, Lisbon.
Hippocampal contributions to control: a normative theory.
Lengyel M., Peter Dayan

Multi-Level Selection in the Emergence of Language Systematicity
Steels L., Van Trijp R., Wellens, P.
In Almeida e Costa, F., Rocha, L.M., Costa, E. and Harvey, I., editor, Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Artificial Life, LNAI 4648 , Berlin, 2007. Springer-Verlag.
Social learning and cultural evolution in embodied and situated agents
Acerbi A., Nolfi S.
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on COmputational Intelligence, IEEE Press
V1 activity as Bayesian inference
Orban G., Lengyel M., József Fiser

A (very) brief introduction in Fluid Construction Grammar.
Steels L., De Beule, J.
Proceedings of the ACL HTCL workshop on scalable language processing. New York, USA.
Augmenting Navigation for Collaborative Tagging with Emergent Semantics.
Aurnhammer M., Steels L., Hanappe, P.
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2006.
Bayesian model learning in human visual perception
Orban G., Fiser J., Aslin R. N
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18, Eds Y Weiss, B Scholkopf, and J. Platt. pp. 1043-1050. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Bootstrapping communication in language games. Strategy, topology and all that
Baronchelli A., Loreto V., Luca Dall\'Asta (DELIS) Alain Barrat (DELIS)
Proceedngs of the 6th International Conference (EVOLANG6), edited by A. Cangelosi, A.D. Smith and K. Smith, World Scientific Publishing.
Comment les robots construisent leur monde.
Kaplan F., Oudeyer P.-Y.
in proceedings of Sony CSL 10th anniversary symposium, Paris.
Complex systems approach to language games
Baronchelli A., Loreto V., Steels L., E. Caglioti
Proceedings of the Seconf European Conference on Complex Systems ECCS'06, Oxford (UK), November 2006.
Curiosity-driven development.
Kaplan F., Oudeyer P.-Y.
in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Synergistic Intelligence Dynamics, Genova, Italy. (8 pages)
Emergence of communication in teams of embodied and situated agents
Marocco D., Nolfi S.
Proceeding of the VI International Conference on the Evolution of Language.
Evolving communicating agents that integrate information over time: a real robot experiment
Ampatzis C., Dorigo M., Trianni V.
In E.-G. Talbi, P. Liardet, P. Collet, E. Lutton, and M. Schoenauer (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Evolution, (EA 2005), Lille France.
How Grammar Emerges to Dampen Combinatorial Search in Parsing.
Steels L., Wellens, P.
In P. Vogt et al., Symbol Grounding and Beyond: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, LNCS 4211, p. 76-88. Springer Verlag, Berlin.
How to do Experiments in Artificial Language Evolution and Why.
Steels L.
In Cangelosi, A., Smith A. and Smith K., editor, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on, London, 2006. World Scientific Publishing.
Integrating Collaborative Tagging and Emergent Semantics for Image Retrieval.
Aurnhammer M., Steels L., Hanappe, P.
Proceedings WWW2006, Collaborative Web Tagging Workshop, May 2006.
Intelligent Fridge Poetry Magnets
Holmquist L.E.
Thomas, K., Proske, P. and Rickardsson, M. Intelligent Fridge Poetry Magnets In proceedings of IUI 2006, the 10th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, February 2006, Sydney, Australia.
Introducing Fluid Construction Grammar.
Steels L., Van Trijp R., J. De Beule
Abstract for Construction Grammar conference, Tokyo.
Learning Objects by Learning Models: Finding Independent Causes and Preferring Simplicity.
Orban G., Fiser J., Aslin R. N.
Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. pp 645-650, Sheridan Publishing
Measuring Coordination as Entropy Decrease in Groups of Linked Simulated Robots
Parisi D., Baldassarre G., Nolfi S.
In Proceeding of the International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2004)
Où vont les robots ?
Oudeyer P.-Y.
Science et Devenir de l'Homme, Lettre aux générations 2000, association Mouvement Universel de Responsabilité Scientifique
Push!Photo: Informal Photo Sharing in Ad-Hoc Networks
Rost M.
Rost, M., Jacobsson, M. and Holmquist, L.E. Push!Photo: Informal Photo Sharing in Ad-Hoc Networks. In Adjunct Proceedings of UbiComp 2006, The Eighth International Conference of Ubiquitous Computing, September 2006, Orange County, California, USA.
Recurrent and Concurrent neural networks for objects recognition
Cecconi F., Marco Campennì
The IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2006), February 13 16, Innsbruck, Austria.
Scaffolding Grammatical Complexity Growth using the Autotelic Principle.
Steels L., P. Wellens
IEEE Alife Conference, Hawai (in press).
Strategies for fast convergence in semiotic dynamics
Baronchelli A., Loreto V., Luca Dall\'Asta (DELIS) Alain Barrat (DELIS)
Proceedings of the Artificial Life ALIFE X conference, edited by L.M. Rocha et al. pp. 480-485, MIT Press.
Synchronization within Homogeneous Neural Modules Controlling a Simulated Hexapod Robot
Nolfi S., Mariagiovanna Mazzapioda
Proceeding of the X International Conference on Artificial Life.
Trends in Epigenetic Robotics: Atlas 2006
Kaplan F., Oudeyer P.-Y.
in Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. and Revel, A. and Gaussier, P. and Nadel, J. and Berthouze, L. and Kozima, H. and Prince, C. and Balkenius, C., Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, LUCS 128. (7 pages)
Unify and Merge in Fluid Construction Grammar
Steels L., Beule J.D.
In P. Vogt et al., editor, Symbol Grounding and Beyond: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, pages 197-223. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Why Human Languages Mark Perspective
Steels L., Loetzsch M., Bergen, Benjamin
submitted
Bootstrapping shared combinatorial vocalization systems from imitation
Oudeyer P.-Y.
to appear in the Proceedings of the Sixth Evolution of Language Conference, Rome, Italy.
Designing a Mobile Music Sharing System Based on Emergent Properties
Hakansson M.
Maria Håkansson, Mattias Jacobsson and Lars Erik Holmquist. In Proceedings of AMT 2005, the 3rd International Conference on Active Media Technology, May 2005, Takamatsu, Japan.
Designing Personal Embodied Agents with Personas
Ljungblad S.
Ljungblad, S., Walter, K., Jacobsson, M. and Holmquist, L.E. Designing Personal Embodied Agents with Personas. In Proceedings of RO-MAN 06, The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Hatfield, United Kingdom.
Designing Robot Applications For Everyday Use
Ljungblad S.
Sara Ljungblad and Lars Erik Holmquist. In Proceedings of sOc-EUSAI, the Smart Objects & Ambient Intelligence conference, October 2005, Grenoble, France.
Hierarchy in Fluid Construction Grammar
Steels L., Joachim De Beule
De Beule, Joachim and Luc Steels. Hierarchy in Fluid Construction Grammar. In Furbach, Ulrich, editor, KI 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the 28th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (vol. 3698), Berlin, 2005. Springer Verlag.
Interpersonal Maps and the Body Correspondence Problem
Hafner V., Kaplan F.
In Demiris, Y. and Dautenhahn, K. and Nehaniv, C., editor, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Imitation in animals and artifacts, pages 48-53, Herderfordshire, UK, 2005.
Language as as aid to categorization: a neural network model of early language acquisition
Parisi D., Mirolli M.
In A. Cangelosi et al. (eds.), Modeling language, cognition and action: Proceedings of the 9th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. Singapore: World Scientific
Linking in Fluid Construction Grammars.
Steels L., De Beule, J. and Neubauer, N.
Proceedings of BNAIC. Transactions of the Belgian Royal Society of Arts and Sciences., pages 11-18, Brussels, 2005.
Mapping the space of skills: An approach for comparing embodied sensorimotor organizations
Kaplan F., Hafner V.
Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-05), pages 129-134, 2005. IEEE.
Planning What To Say: Second Order Semantics for Fluid Construction Grammars
Steels L., Bleys, Joris
In Bugarin Diz, A. and J. Santos Reyes, editor, Proceedings of CAEPIA '05. Lecture Notes in AI., Berlin, 2005. Springer Verlag.
Push!Music: Intelligent Music Sharing on Mobile Devices
Jacobsson M.
Mattias Jacobsson, Mattias Rost, Maria Håkansson and Lars Erik Holmquist. In Adjunct Proceedings of UbiComp 2005, the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, September 2005, Tokyo, Japan.
Self-organizing communication in language games
Baronchelli A., Caglioti E., Loreto V., Steels L., Maddalena Felici
Paper presented on the ECCS 2005 conference and to be published on the proceedings.
The self-organization of combinatorial vocalization systems
Oudeyer P.-Y.
In the proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems, Paris.
What triggers the emergence of grammar?
Steels L.
AISB'05: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication (EELC'05), pages 143-150, Hatfield, 2005. University of Hertfordshire.
Constructivist Development of Grounded Construction Grammars
Steels L.
Steels, Luc. Constructivist Development of Grounded Construction Grammars. In Daelemans, W., editor, Proceedings Annual Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004.
Context Photography: Modifying the Digital Camera Into a New Creative Tool
Ljungblad S., Hakansson M., Gaye L., Holmquist L.E.
In Extended Abstracts of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004), Vienna, Austria.
Defining and identifying communities in networks
Castellano C., Parisi D., Cecconi F., Loreto V., Radicchi F.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, PNAS, vol. 101, no. 9, pp. 2658-2663
Everyday robotics: robots as everyday objects
Kaplan F.
Joint sOc-EUSAI conference, Grenoble, october 2004.
Evolution of Direct Communication for a Swarm-bot Performing Hole Avoidance
Dorigo M., Trianni V., Labella T.H.
in Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence Proceedings of ANTS 2004 Fourth International Workshop", vol. 3172, p. 131-132
Robot Toys: Designing Playful Interaction Between Robots and Humans
Ljungblad S.
Ljungblad S., Gaye L. Complex Systems Conference 2004, 5-8 December 2004, in Turino, Italy. Poster.
The Challenges of Joint Attention
Kaplan F., Hafner V.
In Berthouze, L. and Kozima, H. and Prince, C. and Sandini, G. and Stojanov, G. and Metta, G. and Balkenius, C., editor, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic System, pages 67-74, 2004. Lund University Cognitive Studies 117.
The GapiDraw Platform: High-Performance Cross-Platform Graphics on Mobile Devices
Sanneblad J.
In Proceedings of Third International Conference On Mobile And Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM2004), Washington, USA
User-Driven Innovation in the Future Applications Lab
Holmquist L.E.
In Extended Abstracts of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004), Vienna, Austria.
When Media Gets Wise:Collaborative Filtering with Mobile Media Agents
Holmquist L.E., Jacobsson M., Rost M.
To appear in Proceedings of IUI 2006, the 10th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, February 2006, Sydney, Australia.
“Why is everyone inside me?!” Using Shared Displays in Mobile Computer Games
Sanneblad J.
In Proceedings of ICEC 2004, IFIP SG16 3rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing.

Chapters

Co-evolving morphology and control: A distributed approach
Cangelosi A., Nolfi S., Mazzapioda M.
Submitted. Proceeding of the The Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems
Conventionalization of linguistic categories under simple communicative constraints

in Proceedings of IEEE World Congress on Computational. Intelligence (WCCI 2008), June 1-6, Hong Kong. In press.
Emergence of interaction among adaptive agents
Nolfi S., Martius G., Herrmann J.M.
in Proceeding of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’08). Berlin: Springer Verlag.
Evolution of Altruistic Robots
Floreano D., Mitri S., Keller L., Perez-Uribe A.
in Yen G. (Eds), Advances in Evolutionary Intelligence. Springer Verlag.
Evolving homogeneous neuro-controllers for a group of heterogeneous robots: coordinated motion, cooperation, and acoustic communication.
Tuci E., Dorigo M., Ampatzis C., Vicentini F.
Artificial Life, Vol. 14, No. 2
Interfaces for Community Memories
Steels L., Tiselli E.
in Proceedings of the ACM International User Interface Conference IUI-2008, Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions. Gran Canaria. Spain.
Social Tagging in Community Memories
Steels L., Tiselli E.
in Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Social Information Processing, AAAI Press, Stanford Ca.
The Emergence of Embodied Communication in Artificial Agents and Humans
Steels L., Galantucci B.
in Wachsmuth I. et.al. (eds.), Embodied Communication, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
The Genetic Code and Natural Language: their Nature, Origins and Relation
Szatmary Z.
in P. Walde, F. Kraus (eds), An den Grenzen des Wissens, Vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zürich, pp. 185-207.
The see-Puck: A Platform for Exploring Human-Robot Relationships
Jacobsson M., Holmquist L.E., Bodin J.
in Proceedings of CHI 2008, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 5-10, Florence, Italy.
Typological and Computational Investigations of Spatial Perspective
Loetzsch M., Van Trijp R., Steels L.
In Wachsmuth, I. and Knoblich, G., editor, Modeling Communication with Robots and Virtual Humans, LNCS (vol. 4930 ), Berlin, 2008. Springer.
A constraint-based model of grounded compositional semantics
Van den Broeck W.
in Seabra Lopes L., Belpaeme T., Cowley S.J. (eds), Language and Robots: Proceedings of the Symposium. 10-12 December 2007, Aveiro, Portugal, December 2007, Universidade de Aveiro, pp. 93-98.
Formation of spatial representations in evolving autonomous robots
Gigliotta O., Nolfi S.
in Proceedings of the First IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life. IEEE Press, pp. 171-178
Gifts from friends and strangers: A study of mobile music sharing.
Hakansson M., Rost M., Holmquist L.E.
in Proceedings of ECSCW 2007, September 24-28, Limerick, Ireland.
GlowBots: Robots That Evolve Relationships
Jacobsson M., Ljungblad S., Holmquist L.E., Bodin J., Knurek J.
in Adjunct Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2007 (Emerging Technologies exhibition), August 5-9, San Diego, USA.
In silico Evolutionary Developmental Neurobiology and the Origin of Natural Language
Szathmary E., Szatmary Z., Ittzes P., Orban G., Szamado S., Anna Fedor Mate Varga Istvan Zachar Ferenc Huszar
in The emergence of communication and language, Springer, 2007
Intrinsically Motivated Machines
Kaplan F., Oudeyer P.-Y.
in M. Lungarella and Iida, F, Bongard, J,. and Pfeifer, R. (Eds.): 50 Years of AI, Festschrift, LNAI 4850, pp. 304–315, 2007.
Intrinsically Motivated Machines
Kaplan F., Oudeyer P.-Y.
in proceedings of the 50th anniversary summit of AI, Monteverita, Switzerland, LNAI, Springer Verlag.
Language as a cognitive tool: Computational models of a philosophical topic
Parisi D., Mirolli M.
submitted for the post-conference proceedings of i-C&P06
Language has originated in social brains
Steels L.
in O. Vilarroya and Francesc Forn (eds.), Stances on the Social Brain. VIBS. Rodopi, Barcelona.
Minimal Communication Strategies for Self-Organising Synchronisation Behaviours.
Trianni V., Nolfi S.
In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence. IEEE Press.
Perspective Alignment in Spatial Language.
Steels L., Loetzsch M.
in Spatial Language In: Coventry, K. R., Tenbrink, T., & Bateman, J. (eds.), Spatial Language and Dialogue. Oxford University Press. (in press)
Scaffolding Language Emergence Using the Autotelic Principle
Steels L., Wellens P.
First IEEE Alife Conference, Hawaii.
Social facilitation on the development of foraging behaviours in a population of autonomous robots
Acerbi A., Marocco D., Nolfi S.
in Costa F.A., Rocha L.M., Costa E., Harvey I., Coutinho A. (eds), Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Artificial Life, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 4684, pp. 575-584.
The Evolution of Acoustic Communication Between Two Cooperating Robots.
Tuci E., Ampatzis C.
Proc. of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007), LNAI 4648, pp. 395-404, F. Almeida e Costa, L.M. Rocha, E. Costa, I. Harvey, A. Coutinho (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2007.
The symbol grounding problem is solved, so what's next.
Steels L.
In: De Vega, M., G. Glennberg, G. Graesser (2007) (eds) Symbols, embodiment and meaning. Academic Press, New Haven. (in press)
Transfer Scenarios: Grounding Innovation with Marginal Practices
Ljungblad S., Holmquist L.E.
in Proceedings of CHI 2007, ACM annual conference on Computer-Human Interaction, San Jose, USA, ACM Press.
Turn-taking Interaction as a Cooperative and Co-creative Process
Ikegami T., Iizuka H.
Infant Behavior and Development, vol. 30, pp.278-288.
Communication in Natural and Artificial Organisms Experiments in evolutionary robotics
Marocco D., Nolfi S.
In C. Lyon, C. Nehaniv, & A. Cangelosi (Eds.). Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
Developing a reaching behaviour in a simulated anthropomorphic robotic arm through an evolutionary technique
Massera G., Cangelosi A., Nolfi S.
in Rocha L. M. et al. (eds), Artificial Life X: Proceeding of the Tenth International Conference on the simulation and synthesis of living systems, MIT Press, pp. 234-240.
From pre-representational cognition to language
Ikegami T., Zlatev J.
in Body, Language and Mind, vol. 2. Zlatev J., Ziemke T., Roz F., Dirven R. (eds.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
From vocal replication to shared combinatorial speech codes: a small step for evolution, a big step for language
Oudeyer P.-Y.
In C. Lyon and C. Nehaniv and A. Cangelosi, Emergence of Communication and Language, Springer Verlag. 2006.
Operational aspects of the evolved signalling behaviour in a group of cooperating and communicating robots
Tuci E., Dorigo M., Ampatzis C., Vicentini F.
Proc. of the 3rd International Symposium on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication (EELC III), LNAI 4211, pp. 113-127, Vogt P., Sugita Y., Tuci E., and Nehaniv C. (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2006.
Scaling law in language evolution
Sole R.
In Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (Ed.), Scaling laws in the social sciences, Cambridge University Press.
Simulated Turn-taking and Development of Styles of Motion
Ikegami T., Iizuka H.
in Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions, edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn and Christopher Nehaniv, Cambridge University Press.
Simulating the expansion of farming and the differentiation of European Languages
Parisi D., Cecconi F., Antinucci F., Natale F.
Origins and Evolutions of Language, pp. 234-258, Oxford University Press
Sociality in embodied neural agents
Parisi D., Nolfi S.
In R. Sun (Ed.) Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation, Cambridge University Press.
Synchronization and gait adaptation in evolving hexapod robots
Nolfi S., Mazzapioda M.
in Nolfi S., Baldassarre G., Calabretta R., Hallam J., Marocco D., Miglino O., Meyer J-A, Parisi D. (Eds). From animals to animats 9: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour. LNAI, vol. 4095. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag, pp. 113-125
Talking to oneself as a selective pressure for the emergence of language.
Parisi D., Mirolli M.
In A. Cangelosi, A.D.M. Smith and K. Smith (Eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. Singapore, World Scientific, pp. 214-221.
The emergence of language: how to simulate it
Parisi D., Mirolli M.
In C. Lyon, C. Nehaniv, & A. Cangelosi (Eds.). Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
The progress-drive hypothesis: an interpretation of early imitation
Kaplan F., Oudeyer P.-Y.
In Dautenhahn, K. and Nehaniv, C., editor, Models and mechanisms of imitation and social learning: Behavioural, social and communication dimensions, Cambridge University Press. 2006. to appear
Towards Pro-active Embodied Agents: On the Importance of Neural Mechanisms Suitable to Process Time Information
Nolfi S., De Croon G., Postma E.O.
In D. Braha, A. Minai, Y. Bar-Yam (Eds.) Complex Engineering Systems, Perseus Books Groups Press.
Categories Formation in Self-Organizing Embodied Agents
Nolfi S.
In C. Lefebvre (Ed.), Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science. Elsevier, pp. 869-889
From Holistic to Discrete Speech Sounds: The Blind Snow-Flake Maker Hypothesis
Oudeyer P.-Y.
in Tallerman, M., editor, Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution, Oxford University Press, pp. 68-99.
Learning to interpret pointing gestures: experiments with four-legged autonomous robots
Hafner V., Kaplan F.
In Wermter, S. and Palm, G. and Elshaw, M., editor, Biomimetic Neural Learning for Intelligent Robots. Intelligent Systems, Cognitive Robotics, and Neuroscience, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Subseries: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3575, Springer Verlag. 2005.
Analogies between Genome and Language Evolution
Steels L.
In Pollack, J. et.al., editor, Proceedings of ALife 9. The MIT Press Cambridge Ma.
The evolution of Communication Systems by Adaptive Agents
Steels L.
In Alonso E., Kudenko D., Kazakov D. (eds.), Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Lecture Notes in AI, vol. 2636, p.p. 125-140, Springer Verlag
The role of topology on the dynamics of the Naming Game


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An ECAgents approach to human language
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White Paper: target problems and grand challenges for developing embodied and communicating agents
Steels L.

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