We propose a novel approach to self-regenerating continuously-operating systems. Such systems provide best-case solutions in security surveillance or decision making centers. We introduce HADES, a self-regenerating system whose agents acknowledge their “citizenship” or faithfulness to the good of the system and are able to monitor their environment. When agents of HADES find irregularity in the...

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...

Embryonics (embryonic electronics) is a research project which attempts to draw inspiration form the world of biology to design better digital computing machines, and notably massively parallel arrays of processors. In the course of the development of our project, we have realized that the use of programmable logic circuits (field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs) is, if not indispensable, at...

Embryonics is a long-term research project attempting to draw inspiration from the biological process of ontogeny, to implement novel digital computing machines endowed with better fault-tolerant capabilities. For this purpose FPGAs are extremely useful. However, through this project we designed MuxTree, a new coarse-grained FPGA, to implement our embryonic machines. This article focuses on the...

The purpose of this paper is to describe a new neural framework for Artificially Intelligent systems, the Artificial Cognitive Neural Framework (ACNF), which allows for “conscious” software agents within the AI processing environment. “Conscious” software agents are autonomous agents that range in functionality and are situated in the processing environment. They sense the environment and act o...

We present how we have considered the artificial ant paradigm as a tool for the generation of music and painting. From an aesthetic perspective, we are interested in demonstrating that swarm intelligence and self organization can lead to spatio-temporal structures that can reach an artistic dimension. In our case, the use of artificial pheromones can lead to the creation of melodies thanks to a...

Historically, cognitive sciences in general and artificial intelligence in particular have had little to say about human culture. However, if the modest success of nascent field of cognitive science of culture in explaining aspects of culture is any indication, further contributions from cognitive scientists may be needed to develop a predictive computational science of culture. This paper outl...

It is often heard in Artificial Life (A-Life) circles that contemporary biology studies life-as-we-know-it (an Earth based, carbon chain phenomenon), whereas A-Life takes as its domain of study life-as-it-could-be. But lacking a clear definition of “life” the question arises: how would we recognize life-as-it-could-be, if we managed to create it? This short paper offers some speculations on thi...