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Dario Floreano
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Laboratory of Microprocessors and Interfaces (LAMI) Department of Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Jean-Daniel Nicoud
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Laboratory of Microprocessors and Interfaces (LAMI) Department of Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Francesco Mondada
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Laboratory of Microprocessors and Interfaces (LAMI) Department of Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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No matter what your perspective is, what your goals are, or how experienced you are, Artificial Life research is always a learning experience. The variety of phe nomena that the people who gathered in Lausanne reported and discussed for the fifth time since 1991 at the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) has not been programmed, crafted, or assembled by analytic design. It has evolved, emerged, or appeared spontaneously from a process of artificial evolution, se- organisation, or development. Artificial Life is a field where biological and artificial sciences meet and blend together, where the dynamics of biological life are reproduced in the memory of computers, where machines evolve, behave, and communicate like living organ isms, where complex life-like entities are synthesised from electronic chromo somes and artificial chemistries. The impact of Artificial Life in science, phi losophy, and technology is tremendous. Over the years the synthetic approach has established itself as a powerful method for investigating several complex phenomena of life. From a philosophical standpoint, the notion of life and of in telligence is continuously reformulated in relation to the dynamics of the system under observation and to the embedding environment, no longer a privilege of carbon-based entities with brains and eyes. At the same time, the possibility of engineering machines and software with life-like properties such as evolvability, self-repair, and self-maintainance is gradually becoming reality, bringing new perspectives in engineering and applications.
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Table of contents (96 papers)
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Evolutionary Dynamics
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- Henning Schwöbbermeyer, Jan T. Kim
Pages 119-128
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- Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Travis C. Collier, Grace K. Hsu
Pages 129-138
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- Arno Rasek, Walter Dörwald, Michael Hauhs, Alois Kastner-Maresch
Pages 139-148
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- Michael O’Neill, Conor Ryan
Pages 149-153
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- Vesselin K. Vassilev, Julian F. Miller, Terence C. Fogarty
Pages 159-169
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Evolutionary Cybernetics
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Front Matter
Pages 171-171
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- Stefano Nolfi, Domenico Parisi
Pages 173-182
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- Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai
Pages 183-194
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- Richard Walker, Orazio Miglino
Pages 205-214
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- Rens Kortmann, John Hallam
Pages 215-224
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- Ranit Aharonov-Barki, Tuvik Beker, Eytan Ruppin
Pages 246-255
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- Maciej Komosiński, Szymon Ulatowski
Pages 261-265
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Bio-inspired Robotics and Autonomous Agents
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Front Matter
Pages 277-277