Can archaeologists help software engineers unravel what has been happening in an artificial society of intelligent agents? We discuss the methods that archaeologists regularly use and how they relate to the properties of an artificial society and the problems faced in recovering its history. As part of the discussion, an abstract model of a typical artificial society is presented, the structure...

In our paper we are presenting a socio-cultural model of the student as the main actor of a virtual learning environment. The model is part of a larger project DANTE – Socio-Cultural Models implemented through multi-agent architecture for e-learning – that has as main objective the development of a model for the virtual education system, student centred, that facilitates the learning through co...

P osttranslational modifications of histones have attracted enduring interest ever since it was realized that histones are hyperacetylated on lysines at actively transcribed genes (1). Because it neutralizes the charge on a lysine, acetylation was thought to reduce interactions with DNA phosphates, making the DNA more accessible for active processes such as transcription (2). In recent years, t...

Warren Weaver, a biological scientist, wrote that. “..... as man’s control of his environment has proceeded... he has progressively uncovered more and unifying principles which accept the ever increasing variety, but recognize and underlying unity. He has, in short, discovered the many and the one.... The diversity....a surface phenomenon. When one looks underneath and within, the universal uni...

AUTHENTIC INTERACTIVE REENACTMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE WITH 3D VIRTUAL WORLDS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A. Bogdanovycha; J. A. Rodriguez-Aguilarb; S. Simoffa; A. Cohenc a School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia b IIIA, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC, Spanish National Research Council, Bellaterra, Spain c Federation of American Scient...

We report modifications to the SCL model(McMullin and Varela, 1997), an artificial chemistry in Swarm designed to support autopoietic agents. The aim of these modifications is to improve on the longevity of the agents and to implement growth. We demonstrate by means of two simulation runs that the improvements indeed have the desired effects.

This paper investigates evolvability of artificial neural networks within an artificial life environment. Five different structural mutations are investigated, including adaptive evolution, structure duplication, and incremental changes. The total evolvability indicator, Etotal, and the evolvability function through time, are calculated in each instance, in addition to other functional attribut...