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abstract: 'We present here a digital scenario to simulate the emergence of self-organized symbol-based communication among artificial creatures inhabiting a virtual world of predatory events. In order to design the environment and creatures, we seek theoretical and empirical constraints from C.S.Peirce Semiotics and an ethological case study of communication among animals. Our results show that the creatures, assuming the role of sign users and learners, behave collectively as a complex system, where self-organization of communicative interactions plays a major role in the emergence of symbol-based communication. We also strive for a careful use of the theoretical concepts involved, including the concepts of symbol, communication, and emergence, and we use a multi-level model as a basis for the interpretation of inter-level relationships in the semiotic processes we are studying.'
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confdates: '18 - 21 April 2005'
conference: "5th International Conference Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems KIMAS '05: Modeling, Evolution and Engineering."
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  - family: Loula
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  - family: Gudwin
    given: Ricardo
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  - family: El-Hani
    given: Charbel
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  - family: Queiroz
    given: João
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date: 2005
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datestamp: 2005-08-20
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  - comp-sci-lang
  - phil-lang
  - bio-ani-cog
  - comp-sci-complex-theory
  - comp-sci-art-intel
  - bio-ani-behav
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  The Emergence of Symbol-Based Communication in a
  Complex System of Artificial Creatures
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