Progress in Artificial Life Third Australian Conference; ACAL 20
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Marcus Randall Hussein A. Abbass Janet Wiles (Eds.)
Progress in Artificial Life Third Australian Conference, ACAL 2007 Gold Coast, Australia, December 4-6, 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 Marcus Randall Bond University School of Information Technology Robina, QLD 4229, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Hussein A. Abbass University of New South Wales Australian Defence Force Academy School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Janet Wiles The University of Queensland School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Division of Complex & Intelligent Systems Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007939513
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 3-540-76930-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-76930-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
The field of artificial life (Alife) is a rapidly emerging area that draws on expertise from computer science, biology, psychology, to name a few. In essence it is the study of systems related to life, its processes and evolution. These systems commonly use computer model simulations. The past decade has seen an increasing stream of scientific articles devoted to the exploration of Alife. The Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL) series is a testament to the above. It is a biannual event that originated in 2001 as the “Inaugral Workshop on Artificial Life” as part of the 14th Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. ACAL 2007 received 70 quality submissions of which 34 were accepted for oral presentation in the conference. Each paper was peer reviewed by two or three members of the Program Committee. Apart from Australian researchers, the conference attracted participants from a number of countries across Europe, America, Asia-Pacific and A
