Artificial intelligence has been roughly divided into two schools of thought since its beginnings, the symbolic (also known as GOFAI, neat, classical, etc.) and the subsymbolic one (connectionist, scruffy, etc.). These two approaches have also had strong influence on the robotics field. In this paper we want to present a less known one, based on Ethology, and its application to the generation o...

Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) are algorithms inspired by the human immune system. The human immune system is a robust, decentralized, error tolerant and adaptive system. Such properties are highly desirable for the development of novel computer systems. Unlike some other bio-inspired techniques, such as genetic algorithms and neural networks, the field of AIS encompasses a spectrum of algorit...