Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann 10th Europ
The two-volume set LNAI 5777 and LNAI 5778 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th European Conference, ECAl 2009, held in Budapest, Hungary, in September 2009. The 141 revised full papers presented were carefully revie
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
5777
George Kampis István Karsai Eörs Szathmáry (Eds.)
Advances in Artificial Life Darwin Meets von Neumann 10th European Conference, ECAL 2009 Budapest, Hungary, September 13-16, 2009 Revised Selected Papers, Part I
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
Volume Editors George Kampis Eötvös University Department of History and Philosophy of Science Pázmány P.s. 1/C, 1117 Budapest, Hungary E-mail: [email protected] István Karsai East Tennessee State Unviversity Department of Biological Sciences Johnson City, TN 37614-1710 USA E-mail: [email protected] Eörs Szathmáry Collegium Budapest, Szentháromság u.2 1014 Budapest, Hungary E-mail: [email protected]
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-21282-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-21283-3
e-ISSN 1611-3349 e-ISBN 978-3-642-21283-3
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Preface
Artificial Life, unlike artifical intelligence, had humble beginnings. In the case of the latter, when the word itself was born, the first breathtaking results were already out, such as The Logic Theorist, a computer program developed by Allen Newell, Herbert Simon and Cliff Shaw in 1955–56. In artifical life, for a long while, amibition seems to have dominated over the results, and this was certainly true for the first, formative years. It was a bit unclear what exactly Artificial Life is. As not uncommon in science, the first definition was attempted in the negative form, just like when psychology (the study of the mental) was first defined as “anything not physics” (meaning, not natural science) in the nineteenth century. A tempting early definion of Artificia
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