Artificial Life Vii

Author : Mark A. Bedau,John S. McCaskill,Norman H. Packard,Steen Rasmussen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 026252290X

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Artificial Life VII by Mark A. Bedau,John S. McCaskill,Norman H. Packard,Steen Rasmussen Pdf

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.

Author : Russell K. Standish,Mark Bedau,Hussein A. Abbass
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262692813

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Artificial Life 8 by Russell K. Standish,Mark Bedau,Hussein A. Abbass Pdf

How high-level behaviors arise from low-level rules, and how understanding this relationship can suggest novel solutions to complex real-world problems such as disease prevention, stock-market prediction, and data mining on the Internet. 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.

Author : Sarah Kember
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781134551927

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Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life by Sarah Kember Pdf

Examining the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture, this book aims to re-focus concern on the ethics rather than on the 'nature' of artificial life.

Author : Fernando Almeida e Costa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1218 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540749134

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Advances in Artificial Life by Fernando Almeida e Costa Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal. The 125 revised full papers cover 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814466127

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Advanced Artificial Intelligence by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven Levy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0679743898

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Artificial Life by Steven Levy Pdf

This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce, and die. Some behave like birds or ants. One such life form may turn out to be our best weapon in the war against AIDS. What these species have in common is that they exist inside computers, their DNA is digital, and they have come into being not through God's agency but through the efforts of a generation of scientists who seek to create life in silico. But even as it introduces us to these brilliant heretics and unravels the intricacies of their work. Artificial Life examines its subject's dizzying philosophical implications: Is a self-replicating computer program any less alive than a flu virus? Are carbon-and-water-based entities merely part of the continuum of living things? And is it possible that one day "a-life" will look back at human beings and dismiss us as an evolutionary way station -- or, worse still, a dead end?

Author : Hidefumi Sawai
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642151019

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Biological Functions for Information and Communication Technologies by Hidefumi Sawai Pdf

By incorporating biologically-inspired functions into ICT, various types of new-generation information and communication systems can be created. Just some example of areas already benefiting from such design inspiration are network architectures, information processing, molecular communication, and complex network modeling for solving real world-problems. This book provides the theoretical basis for understanding these developments and explains their practical applications. Highlighted inserts appears throughout to help readers to understand the very latest topics in these emerging research fields. The book ends with a more philosophical discussion on how new ICT solutions can be found by looking at analogous systems in biology. This new way of thinking may help researchers and practitioners to apply innovative ideas in developing next-generation technologies.

Author : Jozef Kelemen,Jan Romportl,Eva Zackova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642344220

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Beyond Artificial Intelligence by Jozef Kelemen,Jan Romportl,Eva Zackova Pdf

Products of modern artificial intelligence (AI) have mostly been formed by the views, opinions and goals of the “insiders”, i.e. people usually with engineering background who are driven by the force that can be metaphorically described as the pursuit of the craft of Hephaestus. However, since the present-day technology allows for tighter and tighter mergence of the “natural” everyday human life with machines of immense complexity, the responsible reaction of the scientific community should be based on cautious reflection of what really lies beyond AI, i.e. on the frontiers where the tumultuous ever-growing and ever-changing cloud of AI touches the rest of the world. The chapters of this boo are based on the selected subset of the presentations that were delivered by their respective authors at the conference “Beyond AI: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Artificial Intelligence” held in Pilsen in December 2011. From its very definition, the reflection of the phenomena that lie beyond AI must be inherently interdisciplinary. And so is this book: all the authors took part in a mutual transdisciplinary dialogue after explaining their views on AI not only to a narrow selection of their usual close peers with the same specialisation, but to a much broader audience of various experts from AI engineering, natural sciences, humanities and philosophy. The chapters of this book thus reflect results of such a dialogue.

Author : Angelo Loula and João Queiroz
Publisher : Angelo Conrado Loula
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788573951943

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Advances in Modeling Adaptive and Cognitive Systems by Angelo Loula and João Queiroz Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biological systems
ISBN : UOM:39015047927861

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Artificial Life by Anonim Pdf

Consists of the proceedings of: 1987, Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems; 1990-1992, Artificial Life Workshop; 1994-1996, International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems; 1998- , International Conference on Artificial Life.

Author : Sarah Kember
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Artificial life
ISBN : 0415240271

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Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life by Sarah Kember Pdf

Examining the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture, this book aims to re-focus concern on the ethics rather than on the 'nature' of artificial life.

Author : Peter M.A. Sloot,Bastien Chopard,Alfons G. Hoekstra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 887 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540304791

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Cellular Automata by Peter M.A. Sloot,Bastien Chopard,Alfons G. Hoekstra Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 2004, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in October 2004. The 60 revised full papers and 30 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. The papers are devoted to methods and theory; evolved cellular automata; traffic, networks, and communication; applications in science and engineering; biomedical applications, natural phenomena and ecology; and social and economical applications.

Author : Leandro Nunes de Castro
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781584886433

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Fundamentals of Natural Computing by Leandro Nunes de Castro Pdf

Natural computing brings together nature and computing to develop new computational tools for problem solving; to synthesize natural patterns and behaviors in computers; and to potentially design novel types of computers. Fundamentals of Natural Computing: Basic Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications presents a wide-ranging survey of novel techniques and important applications of nature-based computing. This book presents theoretical and philosophical discussions, pseudocodes for algorithms, and computing paradigms that illustrate how computational techniques can be used to solve complex problems, simulate nature, explain natural phenomena, and possibly allow the development of new computing technologies. The author features a consistent and approachable, textbook-style format that includes lucid figures, tables, real-world examples, and different types of exercises that complement the concepts while encouraging readers to apply the computational tools in each chapter. Building progressively upon core concepts of nature-inspired techniques, the topics include evolutionary computing, neurocomputing, swarm intelligence, immunocomputing, fractal geometry, artificial life, quantum computing, and DNA computing. Fundamentals of Natural Computing is a self-contained introduction and a practical guide to nature-based computational approaches that will find numerous applications in a variety of growing fields including engineering, computer science, biological modeling, and bioinformatics.

Author : Stefano Nolfi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 869 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540386087

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From Animals to Animats 9 by Stefano Nolfi Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2006. The 35 revised full papers and 35 revised poster papers presented are organized in topical sections on the animat approach to adaptive behaviour, perception and motor control, action selection and behavioral sequences, navigation and internal world models, learning and adaptation, evolution, collective and social behaviours, applied adaptive behavior and more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0080471242

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Philosophy of Biology by Anonim Pdf

Philosophy of Biology is a rapidly expanding field. It is concerned with explanatory concepts in evolution, genetics, and ecology. This collection of 25 essays by leading researchers provides an overview of the state of the field. These essays are wholly new; none of them could have been written even ten years ago. They demonstrate how philosophical analysis has been able to contribute to sometimes contested areas of scientific theory making. -Written by internationally acknowledged leaders in the field - Entries make original contributions as well as summarizing state of the art discoveries in the field - Easy to read and understand