Advances in Artificial Life, 2 vols. - 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal. The 125 revised full papers cover morphogenesis and development, robotics and autonomous agents, evolutionary computation and theory, cellular automata, models of biological systems and their applications, ant colony and swarm systems, evolution of communication, simulation of social interactions, self-replication, artificial chemistry.

List of contents

Artificial Chemistries, Pre-biotic Evolution.- Evolution.- Ecosystems.- Morphodynamics, Development.- Adaptive Behavior.- Learning and Evolution.- Communication, Constitution of Meaning, Language.- Agency, Autopoiesis, Autonomy.- Alife and Art.- Dynamics of Social Systems, Collective Behavior.- Swarm and Ant Colony Systems.- Robotics and Autonomous Agents: Concepts and Applications.- Evolutionary Computation.- Networks, Cellular Automata, Complex Systems.- Models and Methodologies.

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal. The 125 revised full papers cover morphogenesis and development, robotics and autonomous agents, evolutionary computation and theory, cellular automata, models of biological systems and their applications, ant colony and swarm systems, evolution of communication, simulation of social interactions, self-replication, artificial chemistry.

Product details

• Assisted by: Fernando Almeida e Costa (Editor), Francesco Almeida e Costa (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Mixed media product
• Released: 14.04.2009
• EAN: 9783540749127
• ISBN: 978-3-540-74912-7
• No. of pages: 1218
• Illustrations: XVIII, 1218 p. In 2 volumes, not available separately.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; C, Artificial Intelligence, Mensch-Computer-Interaktion, Mustererkennung, Diskrete Mathematik, DV-gestützte Biologie/Bioinformatik, Mathematik für Informatiker, computer science, molecular biology, bioinformatics, Theory of Computation, pattern recognition, Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science, Discrete Mathematics, Computers, Automated Pattern Recognition, Information technology: general issues, Computer science—Mathematics, Maths for computer scientists, User interface design & usability, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, User interfaces (Computer systems), Computation by Abstract Devices, Computational biology / bioinformatics