Project description FET - Open Show the project objective Hide the project objective 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. Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2002-2.3.4.1 - FET - Open Call for proposal FP6-2002-IST-C See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERWIJS EU contribution € 583 834,00 Address De Boelelaan 1181a 1181 HV Amsterdam Netherlands See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all EÖTVÖS LORÁND TUDOMÁNYEGYETEM Hungary EU contribution € 150 979,00 Address EGYETEM TER 1-3 1053 BUDAPEST See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT BRABANT Netherlands EU contribution € 273 432,00 Address WARANDELAAN 2 5000 LE TILBURG See on map Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY United Kingdom EU contribution € 262 448,00 Address GU2 7XH GUILDFORD See on map Total cost No data EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY United Kingdom EU contribution € 279 260,00 Address 129 COLINTON ROAD EH14 1DJ EDINBURGH See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data
