[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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