
Advances in Artificial Life
5th European Conference, ECAL'99, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 13-17, 1999 Proceedings
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 1. September 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVIII, 742 pages
978-3-540-66452-9 (ISBN)
Description
No matter what your perspective is, what your goals are, or how experienced you are, Artificial Life research is always a learning experience. The variety of phe nomena that the people who gathered in Lausanne reported and discussed for the fifth time since 1991 at the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) has not been programmed, crafted, or assembled by analytic design. It has evolved, emerged, or appeared spontaneously from a process of artificial evolution, se- organisation, or development. Artificial Life is a field where biological and artificial sciences meet and blend together, where the dynamics of biological life are reproduced in the memory of computers, where machines evolve, behave, and communicate like living organ isms, where complex life-like entities are synthesised from electronic chromo somes and artificial chemistries. The impact of Artificial Life in science, phi losophy, and technology is tremendous. Over the years the synthetic approach has established itself as a powerful method for investigating several complex phenomena of life. From a philosophical standpoint, the notion of life and of in telligence is continuously reformulated in relation to the dynamics of the system under observation and to the embedding environment, no longer a privilege of carbon-based entities with brains and eyes. At the same time, the possibility of engineering machines and software with life-like properties such as evolvability, self-repair, and self-maintainance is gradually becoming reality, bringing new perspectives in engineering and applications.
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Series
Edition
1999 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XVIII, 742 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
1130 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-66452-9 (9783540664529)
DOI
10.1007/3-540-48304-7
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Keynote Lectures.- Epistemology.- Evolutionary Dynamics.- Evolutionary Cybernetics.- Bio-inspired Robotics and Autonomous Agents.- Self-Replication, Self-Maintenance, and Gene Expression.- Societies and Collective Behaviour.- Communication and Language.