Towards the evolution of a language for creative design

Author

Zhang, Anhong ; Saunders, Rob

Author_Institution

Design Lab., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2012

fDate

10-15 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

To explore the possibility of evolving grounded artificial languages for creative design, this paper presents an approach to evolving mappings between spatial relations between simple shapes and artificial utterances. An implementation of this approach is presented, which combines Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR) and Self-Organizing Map (SOM). The results from experiments with this implementation have shown that the transformation between artificial language and design concepts can be realised and the hybrid computational system could be utilised in curious design agents for the evolution of artificial language in computational language games.

Keywords

behavioural sciences computing; knowledge representation; multi-agent systems; self-organising feature maps; HRR; SOM; artificial language; artificial utterance; computational language game; creative design; curious design agent; evolving mappings approach; grounded artificial language; holographic reduced representation; hybrid computational system; language evolution; self-organizing map; simple shape; Art; Australia; Convolution; Games; Shape; Steel; Vectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2012 IEEE Congress on

Conference_Location

Brisbane, QLD

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1510-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-1508-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CEC.2012.6252902

Filename

6252902