Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems: Proceedings of the First European Conference on Artificial Life
(Part of the Complex Adaptive Systems Series)
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Book Overview
Artificial life embodies a recent and important conceptual step in modem science: asserting that the core of intelligence and cognitive abilities is the same as the capacity for living. The recent surge of interest in artificial life has pushed a whole range of engineering traditions, such as control theory and robotics, beyond classical notions of goal and planning into biologically inspired notions of viability and adaptation, situatedness and operational closure. These proceedings serve two important functions: they address bottom-up theories of artificial intelligence and explore what can be learned from simple models such as insects about the cognitive processes and characteristic autonomy of living organisms, while also engaging researchers and philosophers in an exciting examination of the epistemological basis of this new trend.
Topics
Artificial Animals - Genetic Algorithms - Autonomous Systems - Emergent Behaviors - Artificial Ecologies - Immunologic Algorithms - Self-Adapting Systems - Emergent Structures - Emotion And Motivation - Neural Networks - Coevolution - Fitness Landscapes
Contributors
H. Bersini, Domenico Parisi, Rodney A. Brooks, Christopher G. Langton, S. Kauffman, J.-L. Denenbourg, Pattie Maes, John Holland, T. Smithersm H. Swefel, H. Muhlenbein
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0262720191
ISBN13:9780262720199
Release Date:April 1992
Publisher:MIT Press
Length:534 Pages
Weight:3.15 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 8.3" x 10.8"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
Customer Reviews
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timid steps towards artificial life
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
While the subtitle says Artificial Life, the contents are actually only a timid step in that direction. The book came out in 1992 and even now in 2008/9, we are still far from any "true" artificial life. Instead, the book's papers are on more limited topics. Like related to neural networks implementing vision. Or on genetic algorithms and programming. A bunch of papers are in robotics. Describing experiments using electromechanical devices with various control algorithms, for tasks like walking. One paper is off on a different tangent. It looks at dynamics of artificial markets, where there are multiple software agents doing buys and sells. A possible ecology of agents and their behaviour is mooted.
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