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Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents

Second International Symposium, ALIA 2016, Birmingham, UK, June 14-15, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS, volume 732)

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Table of contents (13 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
  2. Modelling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. A Schelling Model with Immigration Dynamics

      • Linda Urselmans
      Pages 3-15
    3. Evolving Complete L-Systems: Using Genetic Algorithms for the Generation of Realistic Plants

      • Benjamin G. Fitch, Patrick Parslow, Karsten Ø. Lundqvist
      Pages 16-23
  3. Robotics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
    2. subCULTron - Cultural Development as a Tool in Underwater Robotics

      • Ronald Thenius, Daniel Moser, Joshua Cherian Varughese, Serge Kernbach, Igor Kuksin, Olga Kernbach et al.
      Pages 27-41
    3. A Modal Logic Analysis of a Line-Following Robot

      • Steve Battle, Matthew Thompson
      Pages 42-55
  4. Human-Like Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
    2. Identifying Human-Like Qualities for Non-player Characters

      • Jason A. Hall, Llyr Ap Cenydd, Christopher J. Headleand
      Pages 117-129
  5. Applications and Games

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
    2. Governing Narrative Events with Tropes as Institutional Norms

      • Matt Thompson, Julian Padget, Steve Battle
      Pages 133-137
    3. Modular Games AI Benchmark

      • Benjamin Williams, James Jackson, Jason Hall, Christopher J. Headleand
      Pages 138-142
    4. GCG Aviator: A Decision Support Agent for Career Management

      • Alina Patelli, Peter R. Lewis, Hai Wang, Ian Nabney, David Bennett, Ralph Lucas
      Pages 143-147
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 149-149

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents, ALIA 2016, held in Birmingham, UK, in June 2016. The 8 revised full papers and three revised short papers presented together with two demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on modelling; robotics; bio-inspired problem solving; human-like systems; applications and games.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Aston Lab for Intelligent Collectives Engineering (ALICE), Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Peter R. Lewis

  • Computer Science Department, Lincoln University, Lincoln, United Kingdom

    Christopher J. Headleand

  • Department of Computer Science and Creative Technologies, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Steve Battle

  • School of Computer Science, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom

    Panagiotis D. Ritsos

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents

  • Book Subtitle: Second International Symposium, ALIA 2016, Birmingham, UK, June 14-15, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

  • Editors: Peter R. Lewis, Christopher J. Headleand, Steve Battle, Panagiotis D. Ritsos

  • Series Title: Communications in Computer and Information Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90418-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90417-7Published: 19 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90418-4Published: 18 April 2018

  • Series ISSN: 1865-0929

  • Series E-ISSN: 1865-0937

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 149

  • Number of Illustrations: 55 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Modeling, Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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