Speaking of which, ALife II has been out of print for many years. I was unable to obtain a copy circa 2000 when I tried.
May be a similar effort to republish ALife II is in order? Cheers On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:39:52AM -0600, Stephen Guerin wrote: > Forward from Tim Taylor on Biota.org list: > > Open publishing is catching on, albeit with a 20 year delay :-) > > Some great gems from this conference. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tim Taylor <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:27 AM > Subject: [Biota] ECAL'93 Proceedings: 100 early Artificial Life papers > available online for the first time! > > I am pleased to announce an open-access electronic version of the > Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'93), > now available at http://alife.org/ecal93/proceedings > > ECAL'93 took place in Brussels in May 1993. One hundred papers were > presented at the conference, covering a wide variety of topics (including > hard, soft and wet artificial life), with contributions from many well > known authors. A hard-copy version of the proceedings (comprising 1179 > pages over two volumes) was distributed to attendees, but this was not > published more widely. > > The new electronic proceedings comprises scanned PDF versions of the > original proceedings. This is the first time that many of these papers have > been freely available. > > The papers provide a fascinating snapshot of the early development of the > field of Artificial Life, 20 years later on. In addition, I think that many > of the papers will be of relevance and interest to contemporary > researchers. The electronic proceedings also fill a gap in the recent > history of the subject, as ECAL'93 was the only conference in either the > ECAL or ALIFE series for which proceedings had not been published. > > Thanks to Barry McMullin for allowing me to set the guillotine on his > original hard-copy version of the proceedings for scanning, and to Hugues > Bersini, one of the original ECAL'93 organizing committee, for his > encouragement. > > Enjoy! > > Tim > > -- > http://www.tim-taylor.com > > _______________________________________________ > Biota mailing list > [email protected] > If you want to be unsubscribed; > http://lists.ccon.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/biota > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
