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Advances in Artificial Life

6th European Conference, ECAL 2001, Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-14, 2001. Proceedings

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Jozef Kelemen

    1. Faculty of Philosophy and Science Institute of Computer Science, Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic

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  2. Petr Sosík

    1. Faculty of Philosophy and Science Institute of Computer Science, Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2159)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (84 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
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  2. Invited Lectures

    1. Computing in Nonlinear Media: Make Waves, Study Collisions

      • Andrew Adamatzky
      Pages 1-10

    2. Ant Algorithms Solve Difficult Optimization Problems

      • Marco Dorigo
      Pages 11-22

    3. The Shifting Network: Volume Signalling in Real and Robot Nervous Systems

      • Phil Husbands, Andy Philippides, Tom Smith, Michael O’Shea
      Pages 23-36

    4. A Study of Replicators and Hypercycles by Typogenetics

      • V. Kvasnička, J. Pospíchal, T. Kaláb
      Pages 37-54

    5. Emergence of a Super-Turing Computational Potential in Artificial Living Systems

      • Jiří Wiedermann, Jan van Leeuwen
      Pages 55-65

  3. Agents in Environments

    1. Eco-Grammars to Model Biological Systems: Adding Probabilities to Agents

      • Sergio O. Anchorena, Blanca Cases
      Pages 66-75

    2. Dynamics of the Environment for Adaptation in Static Resource Models

      • Mark A. Bedau
      Pages 76-85

    3. Adaptive Behavior through a Darwinist Machine

      • F. Bellas, A. Lamas, R. J. Duro
      Pages 86-89

    4. Fault-Tolerant Structures: Towards Robust Self-Replication in a Probabilistic Environment

      • Daniel C. Bünzli, Mathieu S. Capcarrere
      Pages 90-99

    5. Survival of the Unfittest? - The Seceder Model and its Fitness Landscape

      • Peter Dittrich, Wolfgang Banzhaf
      Pages 100-109

    6. Evolving Multi-agent Networks in Structured Environments

      • T. Glotzmann, H. Lange, M. Hauhs, A. Lamm
      Pages 110-119

    7. Suicide as an Evolutionarily Stable Strategy

      • Steven Mascaro, Kevin B. Korb, Ann E. Nicholson
      Pages 120-132

    8. Eden: An Evolutionary Sonic Ecosystem

      • Jon McCormack
      Pages 133-142

    9. New Hybrid Architecture in Artificial Life Simulation

      • David Kadleček, Pavel Nahodil
      Pages 143-146

    10. “In Silico” Experiments on Heavy Metal Sorption by Algal Biomass

      • Jana Kadukova, Marian Mihalo, Martin Palko, Marek Polak
      Pages 147-150

    11. Spatially Explicit Models of Forager Interference

      • Anil K. Seth
      Pages 151-160

    12. Antigens, Antibodies, and the World Wide Web

      • Daniel Stow, Chris Roadknight
      Pages 161-165

    13. I Like What I Know: How Recognition-Based Decisions Can Structure the Environment

      • Peter M. Todd, Simon Kirby
      Pages 166-175

  4. Artificial Chemistry

    1. Bio-Language for Computing with Membranes

      • Angel V. Baranda, Juan Castellanos, Fernando Arroyo, Carmen Luengo
      Pages 176-185
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Why is the question of the di?erence between living and non-living matter - tellectually so attractive to the man of the West? Where are our dreams about our own ability to understand this di?erence and to overcome it using the ?rmly established technologies rooted? Where are, for instance, the cultural roots of the enterprises covered nowadays by the discipline of Arti?cial Life? Cont- plating such questions, one of us has recognized [6] the existence of the eternal dream of the man of the West expressed, for example, in the Old Testament as follows: . . . the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being (Genesis, 2. 7). This is the dream about the workmanlike act of the creation of Adam from clay, about the creation of life from something non-living, and the con?dence in the magic power of technologies. How has this dream developed and been converted into a reality, and how does it determine our present-day activities in science and technology? What is this con?dence rooted in? Then God said: “Let us make man in our image. . . ” (Genesis, 1. 26). Man believes in his own ability to repeat the Creator’s acts, to change ideas into real things, because he believes he is godlike. This con?dence is – using the trendy Dawkins’ term – perhaps the most important cultural meme of the West.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Philosophy and Science Institute of Computer Science, Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic

    Jozef Kelemen, Petr Sosík

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