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Welcome
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Emails from people discovering Biota for the first time, the Podcast is a great place to start. A lot of audio!
Call-In Number
(646) 200-0640
Congratulations
To Dave Kerr and Margaret for the birth of their baby boy, Flint!
Greythumb News
Following the Biota Live #1 discussions, the first Greythumb London meeting will be in February with Bruce Damer giving the introductory lecture.
Justin Lyon can't make it tonight, but he'll be here in spirit.
Jason Evans - email about a Greythumb Brighton.
Checked the Biota mailing list and found a dozen or so epicenters for artificial life groups. About six in North America, at least two in the UK, one in Germany, eastern part of Australia, Japan, etc.
Greythumb Boston is scrambling into action in producing information for the groups. There may be a Greythumb Silicon Valley soon too. More information from Greythumb Boston in the next Biota Live or so.
Remember Call-In Number
(646) 200-0640
Topics from last week that will be covered in the future
Artificial Life and Enterprise Users
Academic Artificial Life and Hobbyist Artificial Life: Meeting In The Middle?
ALIFE XI
James Marshall (CS, Bristol) soliciting papers for the 'Evolution of Personality' theme. I have recently been working with several behavioural ecology and animal behaviour colleagues in this area, and this theme at ALife XI is an experiment, to see who else out there in the ALife community is interested in similar issues. The motivation for the theme is as follows:
'Animals exhibit personalities, yet why they should do so is far from clear. A personality, or behavioural syndrome, is a tendency for an individual's behaviours in different contexts to be correlated: for example, risk-taking and aggressiveness are often seen together in animals. Emotions, for which we struggle to find an adaptive explanation, also lead to correlations across behaviours, and change the nature of animal-animal interactions. The fundamental question is: why are animals not perfectly flexible? Perfect flexibility in behaviour would appear optimal. Deviating from this ideal means game theoretic and other analyses must be modified, and attention must be paid to the computational costs of implementing behaviour. Such a research programme is closely aligned with the questions asked and approaches used in Artificial Life.'
Artificial Life, Just... or To be continued...
