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Publications

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2025

• Popa-Wyatt, Mihaela, Roland Mühlenbernd, Jeremy Wyatt and Cailin O'Connor (2025). Fairness and signalling in bargaining games. Economics & Philosophy, online first. [source]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland & Andreas Baumann (2025). Population-level models of evolutionary pragmatics. In: B. Geurts and R. Moore (eds.), Evolutionary Pragmatics: Communicative Interaction and the Origins of Language, Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language 21. Oxford University Press, 196-225. [source]
• Solt, Stephanie, Roland Mühlenbernd & Mariya Burbelko (2025). Social meaning and pragmatic reasoning: The case of (im)precision. In: T. Knowlton, F. Schwarz and A. Papafragou (eds.), Proceedings of ELM 3, 371-382. [source]

2024

• Mühlenbernd, Roland (2024). How to use evolutionary game theory to study evolutionary aspects of grammar. In: D. Enke, L. Hyman, J. Nichols, G. Seiler, T. Weber & A. Hölzl (eds.), Language Change for the Worse. Berlin: Language Science Press. [source]
• Andreas Baumann, Theresa Matzinger, Roland Mühlenbernd, Sławomir Wacewicz, Michael Pleyer, Stefan Hartmann & Marek Placinski (2024). The role of linguistically encoded emotional characteristics for cooperativeness in a one-shot prisoner's dilemma. In: J. Nölle, L. Raviv, K. Graham, S. Hartmann, Y. Jadoul, M. Josserand, T. Matzinger, K. Mudd, M. Pleyer, A. Slonimska, S. Wacewicz & S. Watson (eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference (EVOLANG XV), 20-27. [source]

2022

• Mühlenbernd, Roland & Stephanie Solt (2022). Modeling (im)precision in context. Linguistics Vanguard 8(1), 113-127. [source]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland & Andreas Baumann (2022). Modeling the origins of communication: Alignment of interests and social cues thereof. In: A. Ravignani, R. Asano, D. Valente, F. Ferretti, S. Hartmann, M. Hayashi, Y. Jadoul, M. Martins, Y. Oseki, E. D. Rodrigues, O. Vasileva and S. Wacewicz (eds.), The evolution of language: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), 528-535. [source]
• Baumann, Andreas & Roland Mühlenbernd (2022). Less of the same: Modeling horror aequi and extravagance as mechanisms of negative frequency dependence in linguistic diversification. In: A. Ravignani, R. Asano, D. Valente, F. Ferretti, S. Hartmann, M. Hayashi, Y. Jadoul, M. Martins, Y. Oseki, E. D. Rodrigues, O. Vasileva and S. Wacewicz (eds.), The evolution of language: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), 50-57. [source]
• LiCalzi, Marco & Roland Mühlenbernd (2022). Feature-weighted categorized play across symmetric games. Experimental Economics 25, 1052-1078. [source]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland, Sławomir Wacewicz & Przemysław Żywiczyński (2022). The evolution of ambiguity in sender-receiver signaling games. Games 13(2), 20. [source]

2021

• Mühlenbernd, Roland, Sławomir Wacewicz & Przemysław Żywiczyński (2021). Politeness and reputation in cultural evolution. Linguistics & Philosophy 44, 1181–1213 (publ. online 2020). [source]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland (2021). Evolutionary stability of ambiguity in context signaling games. Synthese 198(12), 11725-11753 (publ. online 2020). [source]

2020

• Mühlenbernd, Roland, Sławomir Wacewicz & Przemysław Żywiczyński (2020). A cultural-evolutionary model of politeness strategies and reputation. In: A. Ravignani, C. Barbieri, M. Flaherty, Y. Jadoul, E. Lattenkamp, H. Little, M. Martins, K. Mudd & T. Verhoef (eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang XIII), 305-307. [source]
• Dellert, Johannes, Thora Daneyko, Alla Münch, Alina Ladygina, Armin Buch, Natalie Clarius, Ilja Grigorjew, Mohamed Balabel, Hizniye Isabella Boga, Zalina Baysarova, Roland Mühlenbernd, Johannes Wahle & Gerhard Jäger (2020). NorthEuraLex: a wide-coverage lexical database of Northern Eurasia. Language Resources and Evaluation 54, 273–301. [source]

2019

• LiCalzi, Marco & Roland Mühlenbernd (2019). Categorization and cooperation across games. Games 10(1), article 5. [source]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland (2019). The change of signaling conventions in social networks. AI & Society 34, 721–734 (publ. online 2017) [source] [preprint]

2018

• Lorini, Emiliano & Roland Mühlenbernd (2018). The long-term benefits of following fairness norms under dynamics of learning and evolution. Fundamenta Informaticae 158(1-3), 121-148. [preprint] The final publication is available at IOS Press through http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/FI-2018-1644 [source]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland, Przemysław Żywiczyński & Sławomir Wacewicz (2018). Evolutionary stability of linguistic politeness and the Politeness Equilibrium Principle. In: C. Cuskley, M. Flaherty, H. Little, L. McCrohon, A. Ravignani and T. Verhoef (eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang XII), Article 177. [source]

2017

• Mühlenbernd, Roland & Dankmar Enke (2017). The grammaticalization cycle of the progressive - A game-theoretic analysis. Morphology 27(4), 497-526. [source] [preprint]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland & Taraka Rama (2017). What phoneme networks tell us about the age of language families. Journal of Language Evolution 2(1), 67-76. [source]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland & Jason Quinley (2017). Language change and network games. Language and Linguistics Compass 11(2), e12235. [source] [preprint]

2016

• Lorini, Emiliano, Laurent Perrussel & Roland Mühlenbernd (2016). Special issue: Information dynamics in artificial societies. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 25(3), 269-271. [source]
• Enke, Dankmar, Roland Mühlenbernd & Igor Yanovich (2016). The emergence of the progressive to imperfective diachronic cycle in reinforcement-learning agents. In: S.G. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher & T. Verhoef (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang XI), Article 191. [source]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland & Johannes Wahle (2016). Self-organization in sound systems: a model of sound strings processing agents. In: S.G. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher & T. Verhoef (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang XI), Article 42. [source]
• Enke, Dankmar, Roland Mühlenbernd, Jonas David Nick, Nathalie Gavrilov & Matthias Villing (2016). Emergenz menschlicher Sprache: Simulation von Evolution. In: N. Weidtmann (ed.), Sprache und Kognition: Theory of Mind, Emergenz, Neue Medien, Freiheit, Grenzen. Interdisziplinäre Forschungsarbeiten am FORUM SCIENTIARUM, Band 7. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 61-110. [source]

2015

• Lorini, Emiliano & Roland Mühlenbernd (2015). The long-term benefits of following fairness norms: A game-theoretic analysis. In: Q. Chen, P. Torroni, S. Villata, J. Hsu & A. Omicini (eds.), PRIMA 2015: Principles and Practice of Multi-agent Systems, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 9387. Heidelberg/New York: Springer, 301-318. [source] [preprint]

2014

• Mühlenbernd, Roland & Jonas David Nick (2014). Language change and the force of innovation. In: S. Katrenko & R. K. Rendsvig (eds.), Pristine Perspectives on Logic, Language, and Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8607. Heidelberg/New York: Springer, 194-213. [source] [preprint]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland, Dankmar Enke, Matthias Villing, Nathalie Gavrilov & Jonas David Nick (2014). Modality switch in human language evolution. In: E. A. Cartmill, S. Roberts, H. Lyn & H. Cornish (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang X), 161-168. [preprint]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland (2014). Convention and innovation in social networks. In: A. Herzig & E. Lorini (eds.), Proceedings of the European Conference on Social Intelligence (ECSI-2014), CEUR WP 1283, 317-328. [source]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland & Michael Franke (2014). Meaning, evolution and the structure of society. In: A. Herzig & E. Lorini (eds.), Proceedings of the European Conference on Social Intelligence (ECSI-2014), CEUR WP 1283, 28-39. [source]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland (2014). Structure and variation of signaling conventions in scale-free networks. In: A. Herzig & E. Lorini (eds.), Proceedings of the European Conference on Social Intelligence (ECSI-2014), CEUR WP 1283, 347-358. [source]
• Mühlenbernd, R. & S. Schulz (2014). The game of life, decision and communication. Natural Science 6(13), 1093-1102. [source]

2013

• Mühlenbernd, Roland & Jason Quinley (2013). Signaling and simulations in sociolinguistics. In: K. Shwayder (ed.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 19(1), Article 16. [source]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland (2013). Signals and the Structure of Societies. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Tübingen, TOBIAS-Lib Online Publication, URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-70046. [source]

2012

• Mühlenbernd, Roland, Jonas David Nick & Christian Adam (2012). The force of innovation: Emergence and extinction of messages in signaling games. In: S. Katrenko & R. K. Rendsvig (eds.), Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2012 Student Session, 102-113. [source]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland & Michael Franke (2012). Simulating the emergence of conventions in small-world networks. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling & Simulation (BRIMS 2012), 37-42. [preprint]
• Quinley, Jason & Roland Mühlenbernd (2012). Conquest, contact, and convention: Simulating the Norman invasion's impact on linguistic usage. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling & Simulation (BRIMS 2012), 110-115. [preprint]
• Mühlenbernd, Roland & Michael Franke (2012). Signaling conventions: Who learns what where and when in a social network? In: T. Scott-Phillips, M. Tamariz, E. A. Cartmill & J. Hurford (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG IX), 242-249. [preprint]

2011

• Mühlenbernd, Roland (2011). Learning with neighbours: Emergence of convention in a society of learning agents. Synthese 183 (S1), 87-109. [source] [preprint]

earlier

• Danne, Klaus, Roland Mühlenbernd & Marco Platzner (2007). Server-based execution of periodic tasks on dynamically reconfigurable hardware. IET Computers & Digital Techniques 1(4), 295-302. [source]
• Danne, Klaus, Roland Mühlenbernd & Marco Platzner (2006). Executing hardware tasks on dynamically reconfigurable devices under real-time conditions. In: A. Koch, P. Leong & E. Boemo (eds.), Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 1-6. [source]