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ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL LIFE
8TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE, ECAL 2005, CANTERBURY, UK, SEPTEMBER 5-9, 2005, PROCEEDINGS |
| By: |
Mathieu Capcarrere (Editor), Alex A. Freitas (Editor), Peter J. Bentley (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£126.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3540288481 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783540288480 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AND HEIDELBERG GMBH & CO. KG |
| Pub. date: |
29 August, 2005 |
| Series: |
Lecture Notes in Computer Science v.3630 |
| Pages: |
949 |
| Description: |
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2005. This book contains papers organized in topical sections on conceptual articles, morphogenesis and development, robotics and autonomous agents, evolutionary computation and theory, cellular automata, evolution of communication, and more. |
| Synopsis: |
TheArti?cialLifetermappearedmorethan20yearsagoinasmallcornerofNew Mexico, USA. Since then the area has developed dramatically, many researchers joining enthusiastically and research groups sprouting everywhere. This frenetic activity led to the emergence of several strands that are now established ?elds in themselves. We are now reaching a stage that one may describe as maturer: with more rigour, more benchmarks, more results, more stringent acceptance criteria, more applications, in brief, more sound science. This, which is the n- ural path of all new areas, comes at a price, however. A certain enthusiasm, a certain adventurousness from the early years is fading and may have been lost on the way. The ?eld has become more reasonable. To counterbalance this and to encourage lively discussions, a conceptual track, where papers were judged on criteria like importance and/or novelty of the concepts proposed rather than the experimental/theoretical results, has been introduced this year. A conference on a theme as broad as Arti?cial Life is bound to be very - verse,but a few tendencies emerged. First, ?elds like 'Robotics and Autonomous Agents' or 'Evolutionary Computation' are still extremely active and keep on bringing a wealth of results to the A-Life community.Even there, however, new tendencies appear, like collective robotics, and more speci?cally self-assembling robotics, which represent now a large subsection. Second, new areas appear. |
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Germany |
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K |
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