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Author |
: Mark Ward |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2000-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780312266912 |
ISBN-13 |
: 031226691X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Virtual Organisms by : Mark Ward
Discusses how scientists are taking inanimate materials such as computer software and robots and making them behave like living organisms, known as artificial life or ALife.
Author |
: Mark Ward |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2014-06-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466874305 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466874309 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Virtual Organisms by : Mark Ward
Harmless artificial life forms are on the loose on the Internet. Computer viruses and even robots are now able to evolve like their biological counterparts. Telecommunications companies are sending small packets of software to go forth and multiply to cope with ever-increasing telephone traffic. Protein-based computers are on the agenda, and a team in Japan is building an organic brain as clever as a kitten. Welcome to the startling world of Artificial Life. Artificial Life scientists are taking inanimate materials such as computer software and robots and making them behave just like living organisms. In the process they are discovering much about what drives evolution and just what it means to say that something is alive. Virtual Organisms traces the origins of this field from the days when it was practiced by a few maverick scientists to the present and the current boom in Alife research. Leading technology correspondent Mark Ward presents a fascinating survey of current ideas about the origins of life and the engines of evolution. Through interviews with leading developers of Artificial Life, and through his own compelling research, Ward shows how the convergence of technology with biology has enormous implications. In an accessible, entertaining manner, Virtual Organisms reveals an unexplored avenue in predicting the future of Artificial Life, and whether new forms of Alife may be evolving beyond their designer's control.
Author |
: Fernando Almeida e Costa |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 1232 |
Release |
: 2007-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783540749134 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3540749136 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Advances in Artificial Life by : Fernando Almeida e Costa
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal. The 125 revised full papers cover morphogenesis and development, robotics and autonomous agents, evolutionary computation and theory, cellular automata, models of biological systems and their applications, ant colony and swarm systems, evolution of communication, simulation of social interactions, self-replication, artificial chemistry.
Author |
: Samantha Fowler |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023-05-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1739015509 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781739015503 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Concepts of Biology by : Samantha Fowler
Black & white print. Concepts of Biology is designed for the typical introductory biology course for nonmajors, covering standard scope and sequence requirements. The text includes interesting applications and conveys the major themes of biology, with content that is meaningful and easy to understand. The book is designed to demonstrate biology concepts and to promote scientific literacy.
Author |
: Allen W. Batteau |
Publisher |
: Waveland Press |
Total Pages |
: 161 |
Release |
: 2009-06-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781478607977 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1478607971 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Technology and Culture by : Allen W. Batteau
Technology and Culture provides a comprehensive overview of anthropological and other theories examining the place of technology in culture, and the consequences of technology for cultural evolution. The book develops and contrasts anthropological discourse of technology and culture with humanistic and managerial views. It uses core anthropological concepts, including adaptation, evolution, totemic identity, and collective representations, to locate a broad variety of technologies, ancient and modern, in a context of shared understandings and misunderstandings. The author draws on his own experience as an auto mechanic, computer programmer, ethnographer, and aircraft pilot to demonstrate that technologies are cultural creations, encoding and accelerating the dreams and delusions of the societies that produce them.
Author |
: Mitra Baratchi |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 203 |
Release |
: 2021-05-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030766405 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030766403 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning by : Mitra Baratchi
This book contains a selection of the best papers of the 32nd Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, BNAIC/Benelearn 2020, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in November 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 12 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 regular submissions. They address various aspects of artificial intelligence such as natural language processing, agent technology, game theory, problem solving, machine learning, human-agent interaction, AI and education, and data analysis. The chapter 11 is published open access under a CC BY license (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License) Chapter “Gaining Insight into Determinants of Physical Activity Using Bayesian Network Learning” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com..
Author |
: Mike Featherstone |
Publisher |
: SAGE |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 1996-01-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781848609143 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1848609140 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk by : Mike Featherstone
How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world? This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social and cultural forms of the human body. It shows how changing relations between body and technology offer new arenas for cultural representations. At the same time, the contributors examine the realities of human embodiment and the limits of virtual worlds. Topics examined include: technological body modifications, replacements and prosthetics; bodies in cyberspace, virtual environments and cyborg culture; cultural representations of technological embodiment in visual and literary productions; and cyberpunk science fiction as a pre-figurative social and cultural theory.
Author |
: Annabelle Dufourcq |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2021-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000414325 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000414329 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Imaginary of Animals by : Annabelle Dufourcq
This book explores the phenomenon of animal imagination and its profound power over the human imagination. It examines the structural and ethical role that the human imagination must play to provide an interface between humans’ subjectivity and the real cognitive capacities of animals. The book offers a systematic study of the increasing importance of the metaphors, the virtual, and figures in contemporary animal studies. It explores human-animal and real-imaginary dichotomies, revealing them to be the source of oppressive cultural structures. Through an analysis of creative, playful and theatric enactments and mimicry of animal behaviors and communication, the book establishes that human imagination is based on animal imagination. This helps redefine our traditional knowledge about animals and presents new practices and ethical concerns in regard to the animals. The book strongly contends that allowing imagination to play a role in our relation to animals will lead to the development of a more empathetic approach towards them. Drawing on works in phenomenology, contemporary animal philosophy, as well as ethological evidence and biosemiotics, this book is the first to rethink the traditional philosophical concepts of imagination, images, the imaginary, and reality in the light of a zoocentric perspective. It will appeal to philosophers, scholars and students in the field of animal studies, as well as anyone interested in human and non-human imaginations.
Author |
: Wolfgang Banzhaf |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 572 |
Release |
: 2015-07-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262029438 |
ISBN-13 |
: 026202943X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Artificial Chemistries by : Wolfgang Banzhaf
An introduction to the fundamental concepts of the emerging field of Artificial Chemistries, covering both theory and practical applications. The field of Artificial Life (ALife) is now firmly established in the scientific world, but it has yet to achieve one of its original goals: an understanding of the emergence of life on Earth. The new field of Artificial Chemistries draws from chemistry, biology, computer science, mathematics, and other disciplines to work toward that goal. For if, as it has been argued, life emerged from primitive, prebiotic forms of self-organization, then studying models of chemical reaction systems could bring ALife closer to understanding the origins of life. In Artificial Chemistries (ACs), the emphasis is on creating new interactions rather than new materials. The results can be found both in the virtual world, in certain multiagent systems, and in the physical world, in new (artificial) reaction systems. This book offers an introduction to the fundamental concepts of ACs, covering both theory and practical applications. After a general overview of the field and its methodology, the book reviews important aspects of biology, including basic mechanisms of evolution; discusses examples of ACs drawn from the literature; considers fundamental questions of how order can emerge, emphasizing the concept of chemical organization (a closed and self-maintaining set of chemicals); and surveys a range of applications, which include computing, systems modeling in biology, and synthetic life. An appendix provides a Python toolkit for implementing ACs.
Author |
: Enrique Alba |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2021-08-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3030857123 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783030857127 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Advances in Artificial Intelligence by : Enrique Alba
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2020, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, amalgamated with CAEPIA 2021, and held in Malaga, Spain, during September 2021. The 25 full papers presented were carefully selected from 40 submissions. The Conference of the Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA) is a biennial forum open to researchers from all over the world to present and discuss their latest scientific and technological advances in Antificial Intelligence (AI). The book is subdivided into the following topical headings: machine learning, optimization and search, and real-world applications. It covers such themes as ambient intelligence and smart environments; computer vision and robotics; constraints, search and planning; creativity and A.I.; education and A.I.; explainable and responsible A.I.; foundation, models and applications of A.I, and others.