In the last decade, researchers in a wide variety of disciplines became increasingly more interested in phenomena such as evolution of complexity, self-organization, and chaos. This research was sparked by earlier observations of emergent structure in physical systems (e.g. Prigogine, 1977). In the early 90’s, the field of Artificial Life (AL) emerged from Artificial Intelligence by uniting res...

This paper reports some activities towards artificial life research. We propose the implementation of a society of virtual mobile robots, able to perform requested tasks while behaving according to their own motivation and reasoning. Each robot is an intelligent agent that perceives the virtual environment via a simulated vision system and reacts moving its own body by driving its own wheels. T...

The apparent incongruity between the increasing consumption of fuels and chemicals and the finite amount of resources has led us to seek means to maintain the sustainability of our society. Artificial photosynthesis, which utilizes sunlight to create high-value chemicals from abundant resources, is considered as the most promising and viable method. This Minireview describes the progress and ch...

The design of artificial empathy is one of the most essential issues in social robotics. This is because empathic interactions with ordinary people are needed to introduce robots into our society. Several attempts have been made for specific situations. However, such attempts have provided several limitations; thus, diminishing authenticity. The present article proposes “affective developmental...

With more and more various systems in nature and society are proved to be modeled as complex networks, community detection in complex networks as a fundamental problem becomes a hot research topic in a large scale of subjects. Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm (ABC) has high efficiency and does not require any prior knowledge about the number or the original division of the communities. So it is ...

Artificial agents such as robots are performing increasingly significant ethical roles in society. As a result, there is a growing literature regarding their moral status with many suggesting it is justified to regard manufactured entities as having intrinsic moral worth. However, the question of whether artificial agents could have the high degree of moral status that is attributed to human pe...

Humans and other animals are often touted as examples of systems that possess general intelligence. However, rarely if ever do they achieve high levels of intelligence and autonomy on their own: they are raised by parents and caregivers in a society with peers and seniors, who serve as teachers and examples. Current methods for developing artificial learning systems typically do not account for...

The study of artificial life involves simulating biological or sociological processes with a computer. Combining artificial life with techniques from evolutionary computation frequently involves modeling the behavior or decision processes of artificial organisms within a society in such a way that genetic algorithms can be applied to modify these models and enhance behavior over time. Typically...

Exploring the laws of nature and the rules of human society is the grand challenge of sciences. The World Wide Web, its expanding resources, applications and users have constituted an enormous information sharing space. People’s daily life and work have become increasingly relying on it. However, it is still young compared with our society and the nature. What it will be in the future? Billions...

This research investigates the concept of mind as a control system using the " Society of Agents " metaphor, whereby the whole is described as the collective behaviour of simple and intelligent agents. This powerful concept for mind research benefits from the use of metacognition, and eases the development of a self configurable computational model. A six tiered SMCA (Society of Mind Cognitive ...