Artificial life : an overview /

Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and for raising a host of disturbing issues -- scientific and technical as well as philosophical and ethical. This book brings toget...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Langton, Christopher G. (επιμελητής.)
Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1995.
Σειρά:Complex adaptive systems
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Artificial life as a tool for biological inquiry / Charles Taylor and David Jefferson
  • Cooperation and community structure in artificial ecosystems / Kristian Lindgren and Mats G. Nordahl
  • Extended molecular evolutionary biology: artificial life bridging the gap between chemistry and biology / P. Schuster
  • Visual models of morphogenesis / Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
  • The Artificial life roots of artificial intelligence / Luc Steels
  • Toward synthesizing artificial neural networks that exhibit cooperative intelligent behavior: some open issues in artificial life / Michael G. Dyer
  • Modeling adaptive autonomous agents / Pattie Maes
  • Chaos as a source of complexity and diversity in evolution / Kunihiko Kaneko
  • An Evolutionary approach to synthetic biology: zen and the art of creating life / Thomas S. Ray
  • Beyond digital naturalism / Walter Fontana, G�unter Wagner, and Leo W. Buss
  • Learning about life / Mitchel Resnick
  • Books on artificial life and related topics / David G. Stork
  • Computer viruses as artificial life / Eugene H. Spafford
  • Genetic algorithms and artificial life / Melanie Mitchell and Stephanie Forrest
  • Artificial life as philosophy / Daniel Dennett
  • Levels of functional equivalence in reverse bioengineering / Stevan Harnad
  • Why do we need artificial life? / Eric W. Bonabeau and Guy Theraulaz.