Wrappers. Brown covers and spine are all clean, bright, and glossy. Book has a nearly unnoticable trace of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the very tips of the outside corners. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 655 pages. Illustrated throughout with charts, diagrams, photographs, etc. including a section on high quality paper in full color. Includes contrubutions from Richard Dawkins, Pauline Hogeweg, Narenda Goel, Hyman Hartman and a whole bunch of others from various universities. Heavier than average book will require additional postage on orders requesting International or Priority shipping services. A lovely copy.

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Title

Artificial Life: The Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems Held September, 1987 in Los Alamos, New Mexico

Publisher

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Redwood City, CA

Publication Date

1989

Language

English

ISBN 10

0201093561

ISBN 13

9780201093568

Binding

Trade Paperback

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No Additional Printings Noted.

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Artificial Life is the study of synthetic systems that exhibit behaviors characteristics of natural living systems. It complements the traditional biological sciences concerned with the analysis of living organisms by attempting to synthesize lifelike behaviors within computers and other artificial media. By extending the empirical foundation upon which biology is based beyond the carbon-chain of life that has evolved on Earth, Artificial Life can contribute to theoretical biology by locating ”life as we know it” within the larger picture of ”life as it could be.”This book——The Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop On The Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems—introduces the field of Artificial Life, reviews its biological roots, discusses its goals and methodological approaches, and gives examples of modeling technologies and their application to the simulation of specific biological phenomena. It draws comparisons with similar ”bottom up” approaches to the understanding of complex systems as studied in fields such as Physics, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence. The book also contains an extensive annotated bibliography of more than 500 citations of work relevant to the field of Artificial Life.

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Artificial Life is the study of synthetic systems that exhibit behaviors characteristic of natural living systems. It complements the traditional biological sciences concerned with the analysis of living organisms by attempting to synthesize lifelike behaviors within computers and other artificial media.

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