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This book comprises of two parts. In the first, theoretical one, we sketch the biological basis and origin of nervous systems and, based on that, move on to develop a theoretical model for our agent architecture. In the second, practical one, we design this architecture, with its components and their interactions, and experimentally evaluate it. We do this by placing a number of our agents in little game worlds and letting them compete: Who can collect the most food, escape predators best, and triumph over his competitors in a Darwinian struggle?

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Tapolczai, Janos
Janos Tapolczai was born on the December 5th, 1988 and studied, after a technical education in the HTL Wr. Neustadt, software engineering and computational intelligence at the TU Vienna, with a focus on theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.

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