My current research in in the emergence of cognitive and semiotic processes such as meaning, communication and language, and its relateness to other behaviors, through embodied and embedded in the enviroment interactions. My approach includes the study of implications from situated and embodied cognition; semiotics, meaning, communication and representation; autonomy (autonomous agents); complex adaptive systems and self-organization of cognitive competences.

My previous research was in the emergence of symbolic communication competence in virtual agents. My approach included inspiration from a neuroethological case, analysed by Peircean Semiotics. This is related also to the symbol grounding problem, and evolution of language.

* Artificial Cognition (see Group for Research on Artificial Cognition)

* Computational Semiotics and Intelligent Systems (see Computational Semiotics Group)

* Artificial Life, Synthetic Ethology, Computational Neuroethology, and all Biologically Inspired Computing

* Adaptive Behavior, Virtual and Embodied Agents, Artificial Cognitive Architectures

* Computational Intelligence (Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation and Fuzzy Systems)

* Text Minining and Knowledge Discovery

PhD in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering specialization) (2011) at DCA/ FEEC/ UNICAMP, Brazil.

MSc in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering specialization) (2003) at DCA/ FEEC/ UNICAMP, Brazil.

Bachelor in Electrical Engineering (2000) at the DEE/ ENG/ UFBA , Brazil.

Technologist in Computing (1997) at FRB, Brazil.

Angelo Loula (2011). Emergência de Comunicação e Representações em Criaturas Artificiais (Emergence of Communication and Representations in Artificial Creatures). PhD Thesis. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of Campinas. Presented on Oct 30, 2011. (in portuguese) (pdf file) 

Angelo Loula (2004). Comunicação Simbólica entre Criaturas Artificiais: um experimento em Vida Artificial (Symbolic Communication among Artificial Creatures: an Artificial Life experiment). MSc Thesis. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of Campinas. Presented on Jan 30, 2004 (in portuguese) (pdf file) - Biblioteca Digital da Unicamp

The experiments I proposed are based in an ALife project called the Symbolic Creatures Simulation.

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