Knowledge Societies also named Social Learning Networks (SLN) allow interaction and collaboration between individuals (instructors and students), who share their connections under a scheme of learning communities around common learning interest. In this paper, we present Zamná, a Knowledge Society implemented as an adaptive learning social network. A community of Instructors and Learners can cr...

In this special issue we present a selection of papers from the Symposium on Natural/Unconventional Computing and its Philosophical Significance, held during the AISB/IACAP 2012 World Congress in Birmingham (UK). This article is an editorial, introducing the special issue of the journal with the selected papers and the research program of Natural/Unconventional Computing.

Building large complex minds is difficult because we do not understand what the necessary components are or how they should interact. Even if the components were known it is difficult to see a situation where a single lab would have all the necessary expertise and manpower to be able to build the mind. One possible answer is to distribute the various components of the mind throughout the Intern...

Nowadays two aspects challenge engineering education. Firstly, knowledge society emerges as consequence of replacement of the industrial age by the information age. Knowledge has become the most important asset of people promoting their employability and competitiveness on a labour market. Secondly, constantly increasing influence and rapid growth of technology put forward demands for highly sk...

Artificial intelligence is the academic discipline concerning itself with the automation of tasks that require intelligence, often by building computer programs. Since artificial intelligence is a complex, broad, and abstract field, it is hard to give a precise description. At the moment, artificial intelligence is already applied in many common devices and computer programs, such as traffic li...

In this article, I present the state of my research on modeling and simulating the impact of a culture on artificial organizations and artificial societies. In particular, I aim at replicating the effect of culture at the individual level in order to observe the consequences at the collective level. Thus, I expect to reproduce organizational structural and performance (efficiency, robustness, f...

This article presents a virtual environment of cooperative Web-based learning to support the teaching of Music, specifically Musical Harmony. Such environment offers support to both semi-distant learning courses and strict distant learning using Internet/Web. The aim of this work is to integrate artificial and human agents in an interactive environment endowed with access to several high qualit...

The aim in this study was to investigate the emergence of immediate imitation, deferred imitation and synchronic imitation in human infants through the second year. A longitudinal study was conducted of eighty-six infants at three monthly intervals from 12through to 24-months-of-age. At each session the infants were assessed for immediate, deferred and synchronic imitation. Immediate and deferr...

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Two books offer complementary insights into how artificial intelligence is shaping society.