Souvenirs from ECAL 2017: create,play,experiment,discover – revealing the experimental power of virtual worlds

Abstract

This report presents some highlights from ECAL 2017, the Fourteenth European Conference on Artificial Life, which was held on 4–8 September 2017 in Lyon, France.

Keywords

Artificial life origin of life bioinspired robotics evolutionary dynamics swarm engineering epistemology of simulation

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