[alife] ECAL'93 Proceedings: 100 early Artificial Life papers available online for the first time!

Tim Taylor tim at tim-taylor.com
Wed Aug 21 06:58:19 PDT 2013


I am pleased to announce an open-access electronic version of the 
Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Artificial Life 
(ECAL'93), now available at http://alife.org/ecal93/proceedings

ECAL'93 took place in Brussels in May 1993. One hundred papers were 
presented at the conference, covering a wide variety of topics 
(including hard, soft and wet artificial life), with contributions from 
many well known authors. A hard-copy version of the proceedings 
(comprising 1179 pages over two volumes) was distributed to attendees, 
but this was not published more widely.

The new electronic proceedings comprises scanned PDF versions of the 
original proceedings. This is the first time that many of these papers 
have been freely available.

The papers provide a fascinating snapshot of the early development of 
the field of Artificial Life, 20 years later on. In addition, I think 
that many of the papers will be of relevance and interest to 
contemporary researchers. The electronic proceedings also fill a gap in 
the recent history of the subject, as ECAL'93 was the only conference in 
either the ECAL or ALIFE series for which proceedings had not been 
published.

Thanks to Barry McMullin for allowing me to set the guillotine on his 
original hard-copy version of the proceedings for scanning, and to 
Hugues Bersini, one of the original ECAL'93 organizing committee, for 
his encouragement.

Enjoy!

Tim

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