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A Constructive Approach to the Evolution of the Planning Ability

A Constructive Approach to the Evolution of the Planning Ability

Kenichi Minoya, Tatsuo Unemi, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita
Copyright: © 2011 |Volume: 2 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 14
ISSN: 1947-3087|EISSN: 1947-3079|EISBN13: 9781613505755|DOI: 10.4018/jalr.2011070103
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Minoya, Kenichi, et al. "A Constructive Approach to the Evolution of the Planning Ability." IJALR vol.2, no.3 2011: pp.22-35. http://doi.org/10.4018/jalr.2011070103

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Minoya, K., Unemi, T., Suzuki, R., & Arita, T. (2011). A Constructive Approach to the Evolution of the Planning Ability. International Journal of Artificial Life Research (IJALR), 2(3), 22-35. http://doi.org/10.4018/jalr.2011070103

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Minoya, Kenichi, et al. "A Constructive Approach to the Evolution of the Planning Ability," International Journal of Artificial Life Research (IJALR) 2, no.3: 22-35. http://doi.org/10.4018/jalr.2011070103

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Abstract

Human beings have behavioral flexibility based on a general faculty of planning for future events. This paper describes the first stage of a study on the evolution of planning abilities. A blocks world problem is used as a task to be solved by the agents, and encode an inherent planning parameter into the genome. The result of computer simulation shows a general tendency that planning ability emerges when the problem is difficult to solve. When taking social relationships, especially in the collective situation, into account, planning ability is difficult to evolve in the case that the problem is complex because there is a conflict between personal and collective interests. Also, the simulation results indicate that sharing information facilitates evolution of the planning ability although the free rider problem tends to be more serious than the situation where agents do not share information. It implies that there is a strong connection between evolution of the planning ability and symbolic communication.

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