Intelligent Systems

Slides

Course introduction - 00-course_intro.pdf
Introduction to Complex Systems - 01-intro-complex_systems.pdf
Boolean networks (a.k.a. Kauffman networks) - 02-boolean_networks.pdf
Complex networks (a brief intro) - 03-complex_networks.pdf
Boolean network robotics (an invitation) - 04-boolean_network_robotics.pdf
Intelligent systems design (1): Braitenberg vehicles - 05-intelligent_systems_design.pdf
Intelligent systems design (2): The subsumption architecture - 06-intelligent_systems_design.pdf

Lab

Articles

Cellular automata (by S. Wolfram)
Antichaos and adaptation (an introduction to Boolean networks by S. A. Kauffman)
Scale-Free Networks (by A.-L. Barabási and E. Bonabeau)
Complex networks: Structure and dynamics (by S. Boccaletti, V. Latora, Y. Moreno, M. Chavez and D.-U. Hwang)
M. Maris and te Boekhorst. Exploiting Physical Constraints: Heap Formation through Behavioral Error in a Group of Robots. In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS-96, 1996.
D.W. Hogg, F. Martin and M. Resnick. Braitenberg Creatures. MIT Media Lab, 1991.
D. Lambrinos and C. Scheier. Building Complete Autonomous Agents: A Case Study on Categorization. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1996.
D. Lambrinos and C. Scheier. Extended Braitenberg Architectures. AILab technical report, University of Zurich, 1995.
R. Pfeifer. Building "Fungus Eaters": Design Principles of Autonomous Agents. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior SAB96 (From Animals to Animats), 1996.
R. Pfeifer. Symbols, Patterns, and Behavior: Towards a New Understanding of Intelligence. In Proceedings of the Japanese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1996.
R.A. Brooks. A Robust Layered Control System For a Mobile Robot. IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, No. 1, March 1986. Also available as MIT AI Memo 864, September 1985.
R.A. Brooks. A Robot that Walks: Emergent Behavior from a Carefully Evolved Network. Neural Computation, 1:2, 1989.
D. Floreano and L. Keller. Evolutionary Design and Evolutionary Robotics. PLoS Biol 8(1), 2010.
D. Floreano, P. Durr and C. Mattiussi. Neuroevolution: from architectures to learning. Evolutionary Intelligence, vol. 1, num. 1, 2008.
H. Lipson. Evolutionary Design and Evolutionary Robotics. Biomimetics, CRC Press (Bar Cohen, Ed.)
R. Pfeifer, F. Iida and J. Bongard. New Robotics: Design Principles
for Intelligent Systems. Artificial Life, Vol. 11, No. 1-2, Pages 99-120, 2005.
A. Roli, M. Amaducci, L. Garattoni, C. Pinciroli and M. Birattari. State space properties of Boolean networks trained for sequence tasks. In Proc. of ECCS 2012 - European Conference on Complex Systems, Brussels, 2012.

Books

R. Serra and G. Zanarini. Complex Systems and Cognitive Processes. Springer, Berlin, Germany (1990). (versione italiana dal titolo "Sistemi complessi e processi cognitivi")
Y. Bar-Yam. Dynamics of Complex Systems. Available online at http://necsi.edu/publications/dcs/index.html
S.A. Kauffman. The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution. Oxford University Press, UK (1993)
A.-L. Barabási. Linked. Perseus Books Group (2002)
S.H. Strogatz. Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. Hyperion (2003)
M. Newman. Networks: An Introduction. OUP Oxford (2010)
R. Pfeifer and C. Scheier. Understanding Intelligence. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (1999)
R. Pfeifer and J. Bongard. How the body shapes the way we think: A new view of intelligence. The MIT Press (2007)
R.C. Arkin. Behavior-Based Robotics. A Bradford Book (1998)
S. Nolfi and D. Floreano. Evolutionary robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines. The MIT Press (2000)

Software

The R Project for Statistical Computing
igraph: R/Python/C software package for creating and manipulating graphs.
Braitenberg vehicles applet
Simbad: Java robot simulator.
r-evo: Robotic evolution experiments using neural networks.
ARGoS: A multi-robot, multi-engine simulator for heterogeneous swarm robotics.

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