Artificial life VII : : proceedings of the seventh International Conference on Artificial Life / / edited by Mark A. Bedau ... [et al.].

• Superior document: Complex adaptive systems
• Author: International Conference on Artificial Life
• TeilnehmendeR: Bedau, Mark.
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, Massachusetts : : MIT Press,, c2000.; [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : : IEEE Xplore,, [2000]
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Complex adaptive systems
• Physical Description: 1 PDF (xii, 564 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: "A Bradford book."
• Other title: Artificial life seven; Artificial life 7
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• Access: Open access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Mark A. Bedau ... [et al.].

The term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess some of the essential properties of life. This interdisciplinary field includes biologists, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, geneticists, and others. Artificial life may be viewed as an attempt to understand high-level behavior from low-level rules -- for example, how the simple interactions between ants and their environment lead to complex trail-following behavior. An understanding of such relationships in particular systems can suggest novel solutions to complex real-world problems such as disease prevention, stock-market prediction, and data mining on the Internet.Since their inception in 1987, the Artificial Life meetings have grown from small workshops to truly international conferences, reflecting the field's increasing appeal to researchers in all areas of science.