This poster abstract outlines initial results from a multi-disciplinary research project called ‘the emergence of artificial culture in robot societies’ whose overall aim is to investigate the processes and mechanisms by which protocultural behaviours, better described as traditions, might emerge in a free running collective robot system. We accept, as a working hypothesis, the idea that mimesi...

Good design and implementation are necessary but not sufficient pre-requisites for the successful reuse of object-oriented frameworks. Although not always recognized, good documentation is crucial for effective framework reuse and comes with many issues. Defining and writing good quality documentation for a framework is often hard, costly, and tiresome, especially when not aware of its key prob...

We propose that some of the features of the topographic organization in motor cortex emerge from a competition among several conflicting mapping requisites. These competing requisites include a somatotopic map of the body, a map of hand location in space, and a partitioning of cortex into regions that emphasize different complex, ethologically relevant movements. No one type of map fully explai...

In the study of pre-Lie algebras, concept pre-morphism arises naturally as a generalization standard notion morphism. Pre-morphisms can be defined for arbitrary (not-necessarily associative) algebras over any commutative ring k with identity, and dualized in various ways to generalized morphisms (related pre-Jordan algebras) anti-pre-morphisms anti-pre-Lie algebras). We consider idempotent pre-...

the present research endeavors to discover similarities and differences among digital libraries in iran and to clarify the extent of their consistency in terms of main library requisites. using a qualitative -quantitative method, i.e. a survey research method using content analysis, it identifies iranian digital libraries (idls) and explores their characteristics. reviewing the literature, we i...