Advances in Artificial Life 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007,
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Fernando Almeida e Costa Luis Mateus Rocha Ernesto Costa Inman Harvey António Coutinho (Eds.)
Advances in Artificial Life 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007 Lisbon, Portugal, September 10-14, 2007 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 Fernando Almeida e Costa University of Sussex, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics Brighton BN1 9QG, UK, E-mail: [email protected] Luis Mateus Rocha Indiana University, School of Informatics Bloomington, IN 47406, USA E-mail: [email protected] Ernesto Costa University of Coimbra, Department of Informatics 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal E-mail: [email protected] Inman Harvey University of Sussex, Department of Informatics Brighton BN1 9QH, UK E-mail: [email protected] António Coutinho Gulbenkian Institute of Science 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal E-mail: [email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 2007934544 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, J.3, F.1.1-2, G.2, H.5, I.5, J.4, J.6 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-74912-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-74912-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
The use of methodologies of synthesis implemented in computational, robotic or other artificial architectures, aiming at the study of life-like processes, is the hallmark of artificial life. This synthetic approach is linked both to scientific and technological desiderata. Scientifically, it provides a glimpse of possible biological architectures beyond the ones provided by nature, which may play a fundamental role in the constitution of a lawful science of life. Technologically, it helps us discover solutions for hard engineering problems, non-intuitive to humanly biased approaches. This close proximity of science and technology, of content and medium, allows for the search of general organizational principles that bring together, much closer than usually thought, life, mind and social systems. In this edition of ECAL, alongside the usual areas that roughly
