Artificial Life: Borrowing from Biology 4th Australian Conferenc
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Australian Conference on Artificial Life, ACAL 2009, held in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2009. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. R
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Kevin Korb Marcus Randall Tim Hendtlass (Eds.)
Artificial Life: Borrowing from Biology 4th Australian Conference, ACAL 2009 Melbourne, Australia, December 1-4, 2009 Proceedings
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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 Kevin Korb Monash University, School of Information Technology Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Marcus Randall Bond University, School of Information Technology University Drive, Gold Coast, Queensland 4229, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Tim Hendtlass Swinburne University of Technology Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Melbourne, Victoria 3112, Australia E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2009938816
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, J.3, G.2, F.1, I.2.11, I.2.9 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-642-10426-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-642-10426-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
As we approach the limits and capabilities of machines, we find that the principle of diminishing returns is forcing scientists to turn their attention toward biology to provide practical solutions to problems in our increasingly complex world. An emerging field of science that studies the systems related to life, its processes and evolution is known as Artficial Life (ALife). It draws on the skills and talents of scientists from a variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to, biology, psychology, evolution and computer science. These researchers are showing that, by using even simple simulations of the basic processes of nature, much about our complex natural world and our own humanity can be revealed. Gatherings in the expanding Alife community are becoming more common. One such series, the Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL), began in Adelaide in 2001 and was known as the “Inaugral Workshop on Artifical Life.” From these small beginnings, it has become a biennial event that has previousl
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