Topics include self-organization, the origins of life, natural selection, evolutionary computation, neural networks, communication, artificial worlds, software

The term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess some of the essential properties of life. This interdisciplinary field include

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal. The 125 revised full pape

Since their inception in 1987, the Artificial Life meetings have grown from small workshops to truly international conferences, reflecting the fields increasing