A Chemical Model of the Naming Game

Joachim De Beule

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    Abstract

    A key feature of many biological distributed systems is that they have the capacity to behave in highly coordinated ways. In the domain of language, coordination dynamics have been studied within the framework of language games. As yet however, a fundamental understanding that goes beyond the simplest cases is still missing. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for investigating coordination problems. The approach is illustrated for a simple but well studied case called the naming game. It is also argued that the proposed approach provides a good starting point for tackling more complex coordination problems as well.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Life
    Publication statusPublished - 2011
    EventUnknown -
    Duration: 1 Jan 2011 → …

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Life

    Conference

    ConferenceUnknown
    Period1/01/11 → …

    Keywords

    • semiotic dynamics
    • language evolution
    • chemical organization theory

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