Descrizione del progetto FET - Open Mostra l’obiettivo del progetto Nascondi l’obiettivo del progetto The project is concerned with emergence and complexity in socially-inspired artificial systems. We will study large systems consisting of an environment and an inhabitant population. The main goal of the project is to realize an evolving artificial society capable of exploring the environment and developing its own image of this environment and the society through cooperation and interaction. We will work with virtual grid worlds and will set up environments that are sufficiently complex and demanding that communication and cooperation are necessary to adapt to the given tasks. The population's weaponry to develop advanced skills bottom-up consists of individual learning, evolutionary learning, and social learning. One of the main innovations of this project is social learning interpreted as passing knowledge explicitly via a language to others in the same generation. This has a synergetic effect on the learning processes and enables the society to rapidly develop an "understanding" of the world collectively. If the learning process stabilises, the collective must have formed an appropriate world map. Then we will probe the collective mind to learn how the agents perceive the environment, including themselves, and what skills and procedures they have developed to adapt successfully. This could yield new knowledge and surprising perspectives about the environment and the survival task. The project represents a significant scale-up beyond the state-of-the-art in two dimensions: the inner complexity of inhabitants and the size of the population. To achieve and explore highly complex organisms and behaviours, very large populations will be studied. This will make the system at the macro level complex enough to allow significant behaviours (cultures etc) to emerge in separate parts of the system and to interact. To enable this we will set up a large distributed computing infrastructure, and a shared platform to allow very large scale experiments in a p2p fashion. Programma(i) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Argomento(i) IST-2002-2.3.4.1 - FET - Open Invito a presentare proposte FP6-2002-IST-C Vedi altri progetti per questo bando Meccanismo di finanziamento STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinatore VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERWIJS Contributo UE € 583 834,00 Indirizzo De Boelelaan 1181a 1181 HV Amsterdam Paesi Bassi Mostra sulla mappa Collegamenti Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato Partecipanti (4) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto EÖTVÖS LORÁND TUDOMÁNYEGYETEM Ungheria Contributo UE € 150 979,00 Indirizzo EGYETEM TER 1-3 1053 BUDAPEST Mostra sulla mappa Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Costo totale Nessun dato STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT BRABANT Paesi Bassi Contributo UE € 273 432,00 Indirizzo WARANDELAAN 2 5000 LE TILBURG Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY Regno Unito Contributo UE € 262 448,00 Indirizzo GU2 7XH GUILDFORD Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY Regno Unito Contributo UE € 279 260,00 Indirizzo 129 COLINTON ROAD EH14 1DJ EDINBURGH Mostra sulla mappa Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Costo totale Nessun dato