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Artificial Life IV: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems
by (Editor: Rodney Brooks) (Editor: Pattie Maes)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: The MIT Press (1994-09-13)
ISBN: 0262521903
EAN: 9780262521901
Dewey Decimal #: 574.0113
Paperback: 772 pages
SKU: 00-F3U0-0FF8
Condition: Very Good
Comments: No marks or highlights. Cover has creases.
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Product Description
July 6-8, 1994 · the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The field of artificial life has recently emerged through the interaction of research in biology, physics, parallel computing, artificial intelligence, and complex adaptive systems. The goal is to understand, through synthetic experiments, the organizational principles underlying the dynamics (usually the nonlinear dynamics) of living systems. This book brings together contributions to the Fourth Artificial Life Workshop, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the summer of 1994.
Topics include:
- Self-organization and emergent functionality.
- Definitions of life.
- Origin of life.
- Self-reproduction.
- Computer viruses.
- Synthesis of "the living state."
- Evolution and population genetics.
- Coevolution and ecological dynamics.
- Growth, development, and differentiation.
- Organization and behavior of social and colonial organisms.
- Animal behavior.
- Global and local ecosystems and their intersections.
- Autonomous agents (mobile robots and software agents).
- Collective intelligence ("swarm" intelligence).
- Theoretical biology.
- Philosophical issues in A-life (from ontology to ethics).
- Formalisms and tools for A-life research.
- Guidelines and safeguards for the practice of A-life.
A Bradford Book
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