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Dario Floreano
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Laboratory of Microprocessors and Interfaces (LAMI) Department of Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Jean-Daniel Nicoud
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Laboratory of Microprocessors and Interfaces (LAMI) Department of Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Francesco Mondada
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Laboratory of Microprocessors and Interfaces (LAMI) Department of Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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No matter what your perspective is, what your goals are, or how experienced you are, Artificial Life research is always a learning experience. The variety of phe nomena that the people who gathered in Lausanne reported and discussed for the fifth time since 1991 at the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) has not been programmed, crafted, or assembled by analytic design. It has evolved, emerged, or appeared spontaneously from a process of artificial evolution, se- organisation, or development. Artificial Life is a field where biological and artificial sciences meet and blend together, where the dynamics of biological life are reproduced in the memory of computers, where machines evolve, behave, and communicate like living organ isms, where complex life-like entities are synthesised from electronic chromo somes and artificial chemistries. The impact of Artificial Life in science, phi losophy, and technology is tremendous. Over the years the synthetic approach has established itself as a powerful method for investigating several complex phenomena of life. From a philosophical standpoint, the notion of life and of in telligence is continuously reformulated in relation to the dynamics of the system under observation and to the embedding environment, no longer a privilege of carbon-based entities with brains and eyes. At the same time, the possibility of engineering machines and software with life-like properties such as evolvability, self-repair, and self-maintainance is gradually becoming reality, bringing new perspectives in engineering and applications.
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Table of contents (96 papers)
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Self-Replication, Self-Maintenance, and Gene Expression
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- Claus O. Wilke, Christopher Ronnewinkel, Thomas Martinetz
Pages 417-421
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- Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Paulien Hogeweg
Pages 422-426
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- Kouji Harada, Takashi Ikegami
Pages 427-431
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- Andrew Adamatzky, Owen Holland, Chris Melhuish
Pages 432-441
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- Cesar Ortega, Andy Tyrrell
Pages 442-446
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- Enrico Petraglio, Jean-Marc Henry, Gianluca Tempesti
Pages 447-456
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- Shugo Hamahashi, Hiroaki Kitano
Pages 467-471
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- Koji Kyoda, Hiroaki Kitano
Pages 472-476
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- Mineo Morohashi, Hiroaki Kitano
Pages 477-486
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Societies and Collective Behaviour
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Front Matter
Pages 487-487
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- Massimiliano Ugolini, Domenico Parisi
Pages 489-498
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- Martijn Brinkers, Paul den Dulk
Pages 499-503
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- Jason Noble, Elio Tuci, Peter M. Todd
Pages 514-523
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- Seth Bullock, Jennifer Nerissa Davis, Peter M. Todd
Pages 535-544
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- Takashi Ikegami, Makoto Taiji
Pages 545-554