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Artificial Life VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life

By Mark Bedau , John McCaskill , Norman Packard

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2000
ISBN
026252290X
Open Library ID
OL15576567M
Language
english
Format
RAR
Filesize
38 MB (40069938 bytes)
Series
Complex Adaptive Systems
Edition
1st
Pages
500\0
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

The term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess some of the essential properties of life. This truly interdisciplinary field includes biologists, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, geneticists, and others. Artificial life may be viewed as an attempt to understand high-level behavior from low-level rules - for example, how the simple interactions between ants and their environment lead to complex trail-following behavior. An understanding of such relationships in particular systems can suggest novel solutions to complex real-world problems such as disease prevention, stock-market prediction, and data mining on the Internet.Since their inception in 1987, the Artificial Life meetings have grown from small workshops to truly international conferences, reflecting the field's increasing appeal to researchers in all areas of science.

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