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Here are two new papers being prepared for press, by your very own CoSMoS researchers. Topics range from evolution and swarm robotics, to validation and structured means of argumentation.

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Exploiting Loose Horizontal Coupling in Evolutionary Swarm Robotics – ANTS 2010

Jenny Owen, Susan Stepney, Jon Timmis and Alan Winfield

Abstract: “We describe a theory from Herbert Simon that links the structure of complex systems to increased speed of evolution, and argue the position that this theory can be beneficial to evolutionary swarm robotic research.
We propose a way of applying this theory to evolutionary swarm robotic systems by manually designing the robot to robot communication mechanisms and keeping these constant, whilst evolving the rest of the robots’ behaviours. This allows for robots to evolve independently of each other without breaking any inter-dependencies that may exist between robots in the swarm. Finally [...]