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The Evolution of Communication Systems by Adaptive Agents

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Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002, AAMAS 2001)

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The paper surveys some of the mechanisms that have been demonstrated to be relevant for evolving communication systems in software simulations or robotic experiments. In each case, precursors or parallels with work in the study of artificial life and adaptive behaviour are discussed.

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Steels, L. (2003). The Evolution of Communication Systems by Adaptive Agents. In: Alonso, E., Kudenko, D., Kazakov, D. (eds) Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. AAMAS AAMAS 2002 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2636. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44826-8_8

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