This paper proposes the evolutionary generation of an artificial creature’s personality by using the concept of multi-objective optimization. The artificial creature has its own genome and in which each chromosome consists of many genes that contribute to defining its personality. The large number of genes allows for a highly complex system, however it becomes increasingly difficult and time-co...

Ubiquitous robot systems represent the state-of-the-art in robotic technology. This paradigm seamlessly blendsmobile robot technology (Mobot) with distributed sensor systems (Embot) and overseeing software intelligence (Sobot), for various integrated services. The wide scope for research in each component area notwithstanding, the design of the Sobot is critical since it performs the dual purpo...

Compelling synthetic characters must behave in ways that reflect their past experience and thus allow for individual personalization. We therefore need a method that allows characters to learn. But simply adding traditional machine learning algorithms without considering the characters’ own motivations and desires will break the illusion of life. Intentional characters require interactive learn...

The term "psyche" and its derivatives - including "Psychology" and "Psychiatry" - are rooted in classical philosophy and in mythology. Over the centuries, psyche has been the subject of discourse and contemplation, and of fable; it has also come to signify, in entomology, the order of Lepidoptera. In the current surge of research on brain and mind, there is a gradual transition from the psyche ...

8 The intriguing nature of classical Homeric narratives has always fascinated the occidental culture 9 contributing to philosophy, history, mythology and straight forwardly to literature. However what 10 would be so intriguing about Homer's narratives' At a first gaze we shall recognize the very literal 11 appeal and aesthetic pleasure presented on every page across Homer's chants in Odyssey an...

В результате семантического анализа материалов селькупского фольклора, верований, обрядов, изучения пищевых предпочтений и запретов было выявлено несколько древних религиозных идей, сделавших пищу самым действенным магическим средством на селькупском мифологическом поле. Среди них представления о съедении умершего человека, пересекающего границу земного потустороннего миров, животным-предком, п...

We show that there exist two proper creature forcings having a simple (Borel) definition, whose product is not proper. We also give a new condition ensuring properness of some forcings with norms.

In Artificial Life, the production of new artificial creatures always needs more and more computation power. Whereas artificial morphogenesis methods construct complete creatures using blocks, artificial embryogeny develops smaller creatures starting from a unique cell. To obtain a complete creature, organized in tissues and organs, we propose a developmental model in which cells are coded as t...