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Artificial Life: An Overview (Complex Adaptive Systems) (Paperback)

~ Christopher G. Langton (Editor)

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This college-level text focuses on the field of artificial life, providing articles which appeared in the journal of the same name and including a new introduction. Abstracts and keywords introduce each, with plenty of scholarly footnotes providing the necessary research information. -- Midwest Book Review --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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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 together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of the groundbreaking journal Artificial Life, along with a new introduction by Christopher Langton, Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Life, founder of the discipline, and Director of the Artificial Life Program at the Santa Fe Institute.

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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press (January 22, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0262621126
ISBN-13: 978-0262621120
Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.8 inches
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1.0 out of 5 stars An eclectic gathering of papers on dynamic systems, March 24, 1998

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This review is from: Artificial Life: Proceedings Of An Interdisciplinary Workshop On The Synthesis And Simulation Of Living Systems (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings) (Paperback)

Langton pulls together a number of interesting papers from the Los Alamos a-life conference, bound with the perspective only he can provide. Great for the technically-minded curious but most promising as storehouse of ideas for experimentors in dynamic adaptive systems.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Reprint for money, November 8, 1999

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Why not just go to the library and pick up volume 1 of the Artificial Life journal. That's all this is. Did someone really have the gall to sell us a journal twice? Yes, Virginia, I guess they did.

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5.0 out of 5 stars GOOD, February 21, 1999

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This review is from: Artificial Life: An Overview (Hardcover)

IT IS GOOD BOOK FOR EDUCATIO

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