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Mexico, USA in June 1992. The paper collection of this workshop includes
26 papers. Besides the classic content of artificial life, such as genetic
algorithm, evolution simulation, emergence behavior, the overview of
adaptive degree, group dynamics, and chaos mechanism, the application
problem of robot planning is also discussed. Koza's “Artificial Life:
Spontaneous Emergence of Self-replicating and Evolutionary Self-improving
Computer Programs” can be rated as the masterpiece, which discusses the
key emergence mechanism of artificial life research in respect of genetic
algorithm programming.
(4) “Artificial Life IV: The 4th International Workshop on the Synthesis and
Simulation of Living Systems”. This workshop was held at MIT, USA in July
1994. There are 56 papers in the paper collection of this workshop, the
content of which can be divided into 3 parts including invited talks, regular
papers, and short papers. Its content covers a wide range of directions, such
as co-evolution, genetic operators, the synthesis of evolution and other
methods (e.g., the neural network), AL algorithm, research on bifurcation and
the edge of chaos, AL modeling, learning capabilities, evolution dynamics,
cellular automata, research on non-balance theory of DNA, the application of
artificial life in character recognition and robotics, etc.
(5) “Artificial Life V: The 5th International Workshop on the Synthesis and
Simulation of Living Systems”. This workshop was held in Nara, Japan on
May 16-18, 1996, in which more than 500 scholars from around the world
participated. This is the first time that the international workshop on artificial
life is held in Asia. The newly proposed concept of artificial life drew the
attention of Japanese scholars, and many of them participated in the
workshop. This workshop symbolizes that Japan has become the center of
artificial life research in Asian.
(6) “Artificial Life VI: The 6th International Conference on Artificial Life”. This
conference with the theme “Life and Computation: The Boundaries are
Changing”, was held at UCLA, USA on June 26-29, 1998. About 100
submitted papers were received on this conference. Among these papers, 39
papers were accepted as regular papers and introduced in the paper collection
of this conference. Besides, 9 papers were considered to be new work with
high quality in artificial life area. Some important papers were related to the
molecular and cell biology in computation. On this conference, lots of new
ideas were proposed, mainly about development process, the mechanism of
molecular differentiation, and the creation of immune reaction models. These
