Hybrid problems, hybrid solutions

摘要: Hybridness is a topical, if somewhat ambiguous, concept in research environment where there increasing acceptance of multiple co-existent paradigms: artificial intelligence with its emphasis on reasoning abstract symbols; the connectionist approach, exploration synergies many interconnected simple structures; and "Nouvelle Robotics", which places focus interplay between systems generating skill or behaviour complete agents. There scope for considerable argument about principles, programmes, "Nature Things", as well room compromise synthesis. This collection papers, presented at AISB '95 (the 10th biennial conference AI Simulation Behaviour) reveals both