Spatial learning simulation systems

摘要: The study of the movement strategies of animals can provide suggestions concerning general methods for the solution of problems in general. Thus, the behavior of the common bacterium Escherichia coli in its response to levels of attractants is seen as one of the most important primitive adaptive strategies for introducing adaptiveness into a system. More sophisticated adaptive strategies, including strategies for learning, can be clearly understood when played out as controlling movement through space. A highly interactive, color graphics based simulation system called Experimenter has been developed for creating, modifying, manipulating, and simulating model organisms and their two dimensional planar environments. Some of the enormous potential of color graphics systems has been used to create a graphical surrogate experimental system for investigating strategies for moving in space.