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Nivel, E. & K. R. Thórisson (2013). Replicode: A Constructivist Programming Paradigm and Language. Reykjavik University School of Computer Science Technical Report, RUTR-SCS13001. PDF

Nivel, E., K. R. Thórisson, H. Dindo, G. Pezzulo, M. Rodriguez, C. Corbato, B. Steunebrink, D. Ognibene, A. Chella, J. Schmidhuber, R. Sanz, H. P. Helgason (2013). Autocatalytic Endogenous Reflective Architecture. Reykjavik University School of Computer Science Technical Report, RUTR-SCS13002. PDF

Helgason, H. P., E. Nivel & K. R. Thórisson (2012). On Attention Mechanisms for AGI Architectures: A Design Proposal. Proceedings of Artificial General Intelligence, Oxford University, December. PDF Recipient of the Kurzweil Prize for Best AGI Idea

Thórisson, K. R. (2012). A New Constructivist AI: From Manual Construction to Self-Constructive Systems. In P. Wang and B. Goertzel (eds.), Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence. Atlantis Thinking Machines, 4:145-171. PDF

Thórisson, K. R. & H. P. Helgason (2012). Cognitive Architectures and Autonomy: A Comparative Review. Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, 3(2), 1-30. PDF (JAGI website)

Pezzulo, G. (2012). The interaction engine: a common pragmatic competence across linguistic and non-linguistic interactions. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 4(2):105–123.

Pezzulo, G. and Dindo, H. (in press). Intentional strategies that make co-actors more predictable: the case of signaling. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Commentary to Pickering and Garrod).

Dindo, H and La Tona, G. and Nivel, E. and Pezzulo, G. and Chella, A. and Thorisson, K. R. (2012). Simulation and anticipation as tools for coordinating with the future. In A. Chella, R. Pirrone, R. Sorbello, and K. R. Johannsdottir, editors, Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2012, volume 196 of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pages 117-125. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg ( Springer website)

Dindo, H., Chella, A., La Tona, G., Vitali, M., Nivel, E. and Thórisson, K. R. (2011). Learning Problem Solving Skills from Demonstration: An Architectural Approach. Proceedings of Artificial General Intelligence 2011. PDF

Pezzulo, G., Barsalou, L. W., Cangelosi, A., Fischer, M. H., McRae, K. and Spivey, M. J. (2011). The mechanics of embodiment: A dialog on embodiment and computational modeling. Front. Psychology, 2:5. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00005 (Frontiers website)

Pezzulo, G. & Dindo, H. (2011). What should I do next? Using shared representations to solve interaction problems. Experimental Brain Research, 211(3):613–630.

Dindo, H., Zambuto, D., and Pezzulo, G. (2011). Motor simulation via coupled internal models using sequential monte carlo. In Proceedings of IJCAI 2011, pages 2113–2119.

Pezzulo, G., Baldassarre, G., Cesta, A., and Nolfi, S. (2011). Research on cognitive robotics at the institute of cognitive sciences and technologies, national research council of italy. Cognitive Processing, 12(4):367–374.

Jonsson, G. K. & K. R. Thórisson (2010). Evaluating Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction: A Case Study of an Early Humanoid Prototype. In A.J. Spinks, F. Grieco, O.E. Krips, I.W.S. Loijens, I.P.J.J. Noldus and P.H. Zimmerman (eds.), Measuring Behavior 2010: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, 273-276. ACM New York, NY, USA 2010. PDF

Koutnik, J., F. Gomez & J. Schmidhuber (2010). Evolving Neural Networks in Compressed Weight Space. Proceedings of the Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO-10). PDF

Koutnik, J., F. Gomez & J. Schmidhuber (2010). Searching for Minimal Neural Networks in Fourier Space. Proceedings of the Third Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-10), Lugano, Switzerland. PDF

Chella, A., Cossentino, M., Gaglio, S., Sabatucci, L. and Seidita, V. (2010). Agent-Oriented Software Patterns for Robot Rapid and Affordable Programming. Journal of Software and Systems, 83:4, 557-573. (Rivista ISI). ISSN:0164-1212, DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.10.035.

Ferro, M., D. Ognibene, G. Pezzulo & V. Pirrelli (2010). Reading as active sensing: a computational model of gaze planning during word discrimination. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 4.

Seidita, V. and Cossentino, M. (2010). From Modelling to Implementing the Perception Loop in Self-Conscious Systems. International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 2:2, 289-306. ISSN: 1793-8340, DOI: 10.1142/S1793843010000503.

Chella, A., Cossentino, M. and Seidita, V. (2010). Towards a General Design Methodology for Cognitive Architecture Developing. International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 2:2, 363—383 (BICA 2010 Abstracts). DOI: 10.1142/S1793843010000540.

Pezzulo, G., L. Barca, L. Bocconi & A. Borghi (2010). When Affordances Climb into your Mind: Advantages of Motor Simulation in a Memory Task Performed by Novice and Expert Rock Climbers. Brain and Cognition, 73(1) 68-73.

Chella, A., M. Cossentino, V. Seidita & G. Tona (2010). An Approach for the Design of Self-Conscious Agent for Robotics. A. An et al. (Eds.), AMT 2010, August 28-30, 2010, Toronto, Canada, 306—317. LNCS 6335, Springer, Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15470-6, ISBN-13 978-3-642-15469-0.

Chella, A., M. Cossentino & V. Seidita (2010). Self-Conscious Robotic System Design - from Analysis to Implementation. Proceedings of The Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems Conference (BICS 2010), Madrid, Spain, July 14-16, 2010.

Gigliotta. O., G. Pezzulo, & S. Nolfi (2010). Emergence of an internal model in evolving robots subjected to sensory deprivation. Proceedings of SAB.

Ognibene, D., G. Pezzulo, & G. Baldassarre (2010). Learning to Look in Different Environments: An Active-Vision Model which Learns and Readapts Visual Routines. Proceedings of SAB.

Ognibene, D., G. Pezzulo & G. Baldassarre (2010). How can bottom-up information shape learning of top-down attention control skills? Proceedings of 9th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning.

Pezzulo, G., L. Barca, A. L. Bocconi, A. M. & Borghi (2010). Motor Simulation in a Memory Task: Evidence from Rock Climbing. Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Zambuto, D., H. Dindo & A. Chella (2010). Visually-Grounded Language Model for Human-Robot Interaction. International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, ISSN: 0976-416X (accepted for publication).

Dindo, H. & G. Schillaci (2010). An Adaptive Probabilistic Approach to Goal-Level Imitation Learning. Proc. of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS), pages 4452-4457. IEEE, October 18-22 2010. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5654440 PDF

Dindo, H. & D. Zambuto (2010). A Probabilistic Approach to Learning a Visually Grounded Language Model through Human-Robot Interaction. Proc. of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS), pages 790-796. IEEE, October 18-22 2010. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5654298 PDF

Chella, A., H. Dindo, & D. Zambuto (2010). Learning a Grounded Language Model for Human-Robot Interaction. Proc. of the International Workshop on Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents (La-CATODA 2010) @ AISB 2010, 29th March 2010.

Chella, A., Cossentino, M. and Seidita, V. (2010). Software Design of an AGI System Based on Perception Loop. The Third Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI2010). Lugano, Switzerland. March 5-8, 2010. PDF

Sanz, R. (2010). Intelligence, control and the artificial mind. PerAdaMagazine, February 15. PDF

Sanz, R., C. Hernandez, J. Gomez & M. Bedia (2010). Against Animats. Poster, CogSys 2010 PDF

Sanz, R., C. Hernandez & M. Rodriguez (2010). The Epistemic Control Loop. Poster, CogSys 2010 PDF

Sanz, R., C. Hernandez, A. Hernando, J. Gomez & G. Sanchez (2010). Emotion and Metacontrol. Poster, CogSys 2010 PDF

Castelfranchi, C., Pezzulo, G. & Tummolini, L. (2010). Behavioral Implicit Communication (BIC): Communicating with Smart Environments via our Practical Behavior and its Traces. International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, 2(1), 1-12.

Thórisson, K. R. (2009). From Constructionist to Constructivist A.I. Keynote, AAAI Fall Symposium Series - Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Washington D.C., November 5-7, 175-183. AAAI Tech Report FS-09-01, AAAI press, Menlo Park, CA. PDF

Sanz, R., C. Hernandez, J. Gomez & G. Sanchez (2009). Methodological Flaws in Cognitive Animat Research. PDF

Chella, A., M. Cossentino, & V. Seidita (2009). Towards a Methodology for Designing Artificial Conscious Robotic Systems. AAAI Fall Symposium Series - Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Washington D.C., November 5-7, 27-32. AAAI Tech Report FS-09-01, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA. PDF

Chella, A., M. Cossentino, S. Gaglio, L. Sabatucci & V. Seidita (2009). Agent-Oriented Software Patterns for Robot Rapid and Affordable Programming. Journal of Software and Systems. 2009. PDF

Chella, A., M. Cossentino & V. Seidita (2009). Towards the Adoption of a Perception-Driven Perspective in the Design of Complex Robotic Systems. Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Objects and Agents (WOA10), Parma, Italy, 9-10 Luglio 2009. PDF

Pezzulo, G. (2009) DiPRA: A Layered Agent Architecture which Integrates Practical Reasoning and Sensorimotor Schemas Connection Science, 2009, 21, 297-326

Pezzulo, G. & C. Castelfranchi (2009) Thinking as the Control of Imagination: a Conceptual Framework for Goal-Directed Systems Psychological Research, 73, 559-577

Pezzulo, G., M. V. Butz, O. Sigaud & G. Baldassarre (2009) From Sensorimotor to Higer Level Cognitive Processes: an Introduction to Anticipatory Behavior Systems Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems: From Psychological Theories to Artificial Cognitive Systems, Springer

Pezzulo, G.; M. V. Butz, O. Sigaud & G. Baldassarre (eds.) (2009). Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems: From Psychological Theories to Artificial Cognitive Systems. Springer, 2009.