Artificial Life: Volume Ii (SANTA FE INSTITUTE STUDIES IN THE SCIENCES OF COMPLEXITY PROCEEDINGS)

The proceedings of the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on the synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 1990, comprise 30 papers covering current research which employs computers and other media in attempts to simulate and even synthesize such complex biological phenomena as the origin and evolution of life, multi-cellular growth and development, adaptive behavior, ecological and population dynamics, and the behavior of insect colonies. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.