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Artificial life : the proceedings of an interdisciplinary workshop on the synthesis and simulation of living systems held September 1987 in Los Alamos, New Mexico

by Christopher G. Langton

This volume of workshop proceedings introduces the field of artificial life, exploring how synthetic systems can be used to model and analyse biological behaviours, and includes an extensive annotated bibliography.

Accession 17054 ISBN 0201093561 Publisher Addison-Wesley
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