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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557592403321

Autore

Bedau Mark A

Titolo

Artificial life VII : proceedings of the seventh International Conference on Artificial Life / / edited by Mark A. Bedau ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : The MIT Press, 2000

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , c2000

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2000]

Descrizione fisica

1 PDF (xii, 564 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Complex adaptive systems

Altri autori (Persone)

BedauMark

Disciplina

570.113

Soggetti

Biological systems - Computer simulation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

The term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess some of the essential properties of life. This 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.