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Artificial life and real world computing

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The paper motivates the use of biological mechanisms in the construction of artificial systems by pointing to the growing need for open complex real world computing in distributed networked computers, software agents and intelligent autonomous robots. It then discusses in some more detail trends in this last application area, focusing in particular on how new complexity may be generated.

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  1. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

    Luc Steels

  2. Keio University, Tokyo

    Mario Tokoro

  3. Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Tokyo

    Luc Steels & Mario Tokoro

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Steels, L., Tokoro, M. (1995). Artificial life and real world computing. In: van Leeuwen, J. (eds) Computer Science Today. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1000. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0015234

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