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Spatially Distributed Naming Games

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  • Luc Steels

    (SONY Computer Science Laboratory Paris, 6 rue Amyot, 75003 Paris, France;
    VUB AI Laboratory, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium)

  • Angus McIntyre

    (SONY Computer Science Laboratory Paris, 6 rue Amyot, 75003 Paris, France)

Abstract

The paper investigates the dynamical properties of spatially distributed naming games. Naming games are interactions between two agents, a speaker and a hearer, in which the speaker identifies an object using a name. Adaptive naming games imply that speaker and hearer update their lexicons to become better in future games. By engaging in adaptive naming games, a coherent shared vocabulary arises through self-organisation in a population of distributed agents. When the agents are spatially distributed, diversity can be shown to arise, and changes, in population contact lead to language changes.

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  • Luc Steels & Angus McIntyre, 1999. "Spatially Distributed Naming Games," Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 1(04), pages 301-323.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:acsxxx:v:01:y:1999:i:04:n:s021952599800020x
    DOI: 10.1142/S021952599800020X
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