Advances in Artificial Life 8th European Conference, ECAL 2005,
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
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Mathieu S. Capcarrere Alex A. Freitas Peter J. Bentley Colin G. Johnson Jon Timmis (Eds.)
Advances in Artificial Life 8th European Conference, ECAL 2005 Canterbury, UK, September 5-9, 2005 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Mathieu S. Capcarrere Alex A. Freitas Colin G. Johnson University of Kent, Computing Laboratory Canterbury CT2 7NF, UK E-mail: {m.capcarrere, a.a.freitas, c.g.johnson}@kent.ac.uk Peter J. Bentley University College London, Department of Computer Science Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK E-mail: [email protected] Jon Timmis University of York, Departments of Electronic and Computer Science Heslington, York Yo10 5DD, UK E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface
The Artificial Life term appeared more than 20 years ago in a small corner of New 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 fields 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 natural 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 field 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 bro
