Advances in Artificial Life  8th European Conference, ECAL 2005, Canterbury, UK, September 5-9, 2005, Proceedings /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Mathieu Capcarrere, Alex A. Freitas, Peter J. Bentley, Colin G. Johnson, Jon Timmis. 
 - 1st ed. 2005. 
 - XIX, 949 p.  online resource. 
 - Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence,  3630  2945-9141 ; .
 - Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence,  3630 .
<br/><br/>Conceptual Track -- 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 -- Posters. 
<br/><br/> TheArti?cialLifetermappearedmorethan20yearsagoinasmallcornerofNew Mexico, USA. Since then the area has developed dramatically, many researchers joining enthusiastically and research groups sprouting everywhere. This frenetic activity led to the emergence of several strands that are now established ?elds in themselves. We are now reaching a stage that one may describe as maturer: with more rigour, more benchmarks, more results, more stringent acceptance criteria, more applications, in brief, more sound science. This, which is the n- ural path of all new areas, comes at a price, however. A certain enthusiasm, a certain adventurousness from the early years is fading and may have been lost on the way. The ?eld has become more reasonable. To counterbalance this and to encourage lively discussions, a conceptual track, where papers were judged on criteria like importance and/or novelty of the concepts proposed rather than the experimental/theoretical results, has been introduced this year. A conference on a theme as broad as Arti?cial Life is bound to be very - verse,but a few tendencies emerged. First, ?elds like 'Robotics and Autonomous Agents' or 'Evolutionary Computation' are still extremely active and keep on bringing a wealth of results to the A-Life community. Even there, however, new tendencies appear, like collective robotics, and more speci?cally self-assembling robotics, which represent now a large subsection. Second, new areas appear. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783540318163 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1007/11553090  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Artificial intelligence.<br/>Computer science.<br/>User interfaces (Computer systems).<br/>Human-computer interaction.<br/>Computer science--Mathematics.<br/>Discrete mathematics.<br/>Pattern recognition systems.<br/>Bioinformatics.<br/>Artificial Intelligence.<br/>Theory of Computation.<br/>User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.<br/>Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science.<br/>Automated Pattern Recognition.<br/>Bioinformatics.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q334-342 TA347.A78 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>006.3