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  1. Unexpected Attributed Subgraphs: a Mining Algorithm

    Article • November 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  2. Runaway signals: Exaggerated displays of commitment may result from second-order signaling

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, September 2023, Elsevier

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  3. Aggregating variables to discover causality

    Article • ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  4. Multi-scale model-based explanations for cyber-physical systems

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  5. Language: The missing selection pressure

    Article • Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, January 2021, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika/Nicolaus Copernicus University

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  6. Explanatory AI for Pertinent Communication in Autonomic Systems

    Article • August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  7. From reflex to reflection: Two tricks AI could learn from us

    Article • Philosophies, May 2019, MDPI AG

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  8. Information, The Hidden Side of Life

    Article • December 2018, Wiley

    Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Louis Dessalles

  9. Opening the Parallelogram: Considerations on Non-Euclidean Analogies

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  10. Remembered events are unexpected

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  11. Self-sacrifice as a social signal

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  12. Incremental learning with the minimum description length principle

    Article • May 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  13. Similarity and Contrast on Conceptual Spaces for Pertinent Description Generation

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  14. A Computational Model of Moral and Legal Responsibility via Simplicity Theory

    Article • January 2017, IOS Press

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  15. A Cognitive Approach to Relevant Argument Generation

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  16. From conceptual spaces to predicates

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  17. Human Language: An Evolutionary Anomaly

    Article • October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  18. Can believable characters act unexpectedly?

    Article • Literary and Linguistic Computing, August 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  19. Why talk

    Article • June 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  20. THE ROLE OF THE HUMAN POLITICAL SINGULARITY IN THE EMERGENCE OF LANGUAGE

    Article • April 2014, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  21. OPTIMAL INVESTMENT IN SOCIAL SIGNALS: what should I do to attract friends

    Article • Evolution, March 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Jean-Louis Dessalles, Jean-Louis Dessalles

  22. Defining what "relevant" means

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  23. The real mystery about language

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, December 2011, Elsevier

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  24. Reasoning as a lie detection device

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, March 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  25. Sharing cognitive dissonance as a way to reach social harmony

    Article • Social Science Information, March 2011, SAGE Publications

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  26. The evolution of human language: Biolinguistic perspectives (review)

    Article • Language, January 2011, Project Muse

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  27. Chapitre 36. Une anomalie de l’évolution : le langage

    Article • January 2011, CAIRN

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  28. HAVE YOU ANYTHING UNEXPECTED TO SAY? THE HUMAN PROPENSITY TO COMMUNICATE SURPRISE AND ITS ROLE IN THE EMERGENCE OF LANGUAGE

    Article • March 2010, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  29. Et si la coopération était un mythe? Un pilier des sciences sociales ébranlé par la simulation

    Article • Nouvelles perspectives en sciences sociales, January 2010, Consortium Erudit

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  30. Symposium on J.-L. Dessalles’s Why we Talk (OUP, 2007): Precis by J.-L. Dessalles, commentaries by E. Machery, F. Cowie, and J. Alexander, Replies by J.-L. Dessalles

    Article • Biology & Philosophy, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  31. Why is language well designed for communication? (Commentary)

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, October 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  32. The communication of events

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, March 2008, John Benjamins

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  33. Evolution of Narrative behavior

    Article • February 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  34. Storing events to retell them

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  35. GENERALISED SIGNALLING: A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO THE PARADOX OF LANGUAGE

    Article • March 2006, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  36. Emergence in Multi-Agent Systems: Cognitive Hierarchy, Detection, and Complexity Reduction part I: Methodological Issues

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  37. Object recognition is not predication

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  38. Coalition Factor in the Evolution of Non-Kin Altruism

    Article • December 2002, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  39. The problematic transition from specific competences to general competence

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  40. La fonction shannonienne du langage : un indice de son évolution.

    Article • Langages, January 2002, PERSEE Program

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  41. Coalition factor in the evolution of non-kin altruism

    Article • Advances in Complex Systems, June 1999, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  42. Pourquoi est-on, ou n'est-on pas, pertinent ?

    Article • Communication et Langages, January 1996, PERSEE Program

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  43. XMOISE: A logical spreadsheet to elicit didactic knowledge

    Article • January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  44. SAVANT: How to Help Engineers to Learn New Concepts

    Article • European Journal of Engineering Education, January 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  45. Computer assisted concept learning

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  46. Language and Hominid Politics

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  47. Emergence in Agent-Based Computational Social Science

    Article • IGI Global

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  48. Narration and reasoning, from structure to biological function

    Article • De Gruyter

    Jean-Louis Dessalles

  49. Le proto-langage : de quoi les hominidés parlaient-ils ?

    Article • OpenEdition

    Jean-Louis Dessalles