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Recently, brain models attempt to support cognitive abilities of artificial organisms. Incremental approaches are often employed to support modelling process. The present work introduces a novel computational framework for incremental brain modelling, which aims at enforcing partial components re-usability. A coevolutionary agent-based approach is followed which utilizes properly formulated neural agents to represent brain areas. A collaborative coevolutionary method, with the inherent ability to design cooperative substructures, supports the implementation of partial brain models, and additionally supplies a consistent method to achieve their integration. The implemented models are embedded in a robotic platform to support its behavioral capabilities.
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Maniadakis, M., Trahanias, P. (2005). CoEvolutionary Incremental Modelling of Robotic Cognitive Mechanisms. In: Capcarrère, M.S., Freitas, A.A., Bentley, P.J., Johnson, C.G., Timmis, J. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3630. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11553090_21
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