An equation that changed the world: Newton, Einstein, and the theory of relativity: By Harald Fritzsch, translated by Karin Heusch. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. (1994). 279 pages. $29.95
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 126 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0898-1221
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✦ Synopsis
Preface. Plenary talks. Evolutionary systems for brain communications--Towards an artificial brain. Katsunori Shimohara. Emergent functionality in robotic agents through on-line evolution. Luc Steels. Long papers. Artificial fishes with autonomous locomotion, perception, behavior, and learning in a simulated physical world. Demetri Terzopoulos, Xiaoyuan Tu, and Radek Grzeszczuk. Evolving 3D morphology and behavior by competition. Karl Sims. Altruism in the evolution of communication. David H. Ackley and Michael L. Littman. Evolution of metabolism for morphogenesis. Hiroaki Kitano. Competition, coevolution and the game of tag. Craig W. Reynolds. In praise of interactive emergency, or why explanations don't have to wait for implementations. Horst Hendriks-Jansen. Spencer and Dewey on life and mind. Peter Godfrey-Smith. Crossovers generate non-random recombinants under Darwinian selection. Gene Levinson. Steps towards co-evolutionary classification neural networks. Jan Paxedis. Self-organisation in a system of binary strings. Wolfgang Banzhaf. Effects of tree size on travelband formation in orang-utans: Data analysis suggested by a model study. Irenaeus J.A. te Boekhorst and Pauline Hogeweg. A biologically inspired immune system for computers. Jeffrey O. Kephart. Egrets of a feather flock together. Yukihiko Toquenaga, Isamu Kajitani, and Tsutomu Hoshino. A model of the effects of dispersal distance on the evolution of virulence in parasites. C.C. Maley. Innate biases and critical periods: Combining evolution and learning in the acquisition of syntax. John Batali. Dynamics of self-assembling systems--Analogy with chemical kinetics. Kazuo Hosokawa, Isao Shimoyama, and Hirofumi Miura. From local actions to global tasks: Stigmergy and collective robotics. R. Beckers, O.E. Holland, and J.L. Deneubourg. How to evolve autonomous robots: Different approaches in evolutionary robotics. Stefano Nolfi, Dario Floreano, Orasio Miglino, and Francesco Mondada. Evolving visual routines. Michael Patrick Johnson, Pattie Maes, and Trevor Darrell. Evolving sensors in environments of controlled complexity. Filippo Menczer and Richard K. Belew. Traffic at the edge of chaos. Kai Nagel and Steen Rasmussen. A phase transition in random Boolean networks. James F. Lynch. Toward an evolvable model of development for autonomous agent synthesis. Frank Dellaert and Randall D. Beer. Bifurcation structure in diversity dynamics. Mark A.
Bedau and Alan Bahm. On modelling life. Chris Adami. Short papers. Genes, phenes and the Baldwin effect: Learning and evolution in a simulated population. Rober M. French and Adam Messinger. Evolving multi-cellular artificial life. Kurt Thearling and Thomas S. Ray. Meshing of engineering domains by meitotic cell division. Kazuhiro Saitou and Mark J. Jakiela. Simulating natural spacing patterns of insect bristles using a network of interacting celloids. Hiroaki Inayoshi. Character recognition agents. Lijia Zhou and Start Franklin. The building behavior of lattice swarms. Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz, Eric Arpin, and Emmanuel Sardet. Modeling adaptive self-organization. Jari Vaario. Robot herds: Group behaviors for systems with significant dynamics. Jessica K. Hodgins and David C. Brogan. A futures market simulation with non-rational participants. Michael de la Maza and Deniz Yuret. Evolutionary differential of learning abilities--A case study on optimizing parameter values in Q-learning by a genetic algorithm. Tatsuo Unemi, Masahiro Nagayoshi, Nobumasa Hirayama, Toshiaki Node, Kiyoshi Yano, and Yasuhiro Masujima. Exploring the foundations of artificial societies: Experiments in evolving solutions to iterated N-player prisoner's dilemma. Steve Bankes. Evolutionary dynamics of altruistic behavior in optional and compulsory versions of the iterated prisoner's dilemma. John Batali and Philip Kitcher. Evolving cooperation in the non-iterated prisoner's dilemma: The importance of spatial organization. Michael Oliphant. An alternate interpretation of the iterated prisoner's dilemma and the evolution of non-mutual cooperation. Peter J. Angeline. Asymmetric mutations due to semiconservative DNA replication: Double-stranded DNA type genetic algorithms. Hirofumi Doi, Ken-nosuke Wada, and Mitsuru Furusawa. Embryological development on silicon. P. Marchal, C. Piguet, D. Mange, A. Stauffer, and S. Durand. Development and evolution of hardware behaviors. Hitoshi Hemmi, Jun'ichi Mizoguchi, and Katsunori Shimohara. Evolutionary learning in the 2D artificial life system "Avida." Chris Adami and C. Titus Brown. Asynchrony induces stability in cellular automata based models. Hugues Bersini and Vincent Detours. Evolutionary Automata. Murray Shanahan. Non-uniform cellular automata: Evolution in rule space and formation of complex structures. Moshe sipper. Evolutionary robots: Our hands in their brains? James V. Stone. Universality without matter? Alvaro Moreno, Arantza Etzeberria, and Jon Umerez. Emergent phenomena and complexity. Vince Darley. Autonomy vs. environmental dependency in neural knowledge representation. Markus F. Peschl. Adiversity: Stepping up trophic levels. Takuya Saruwatari, Yukihiko Toquenaga, and Tsutomu Hoshino. Artificial culture. Nicholas Gessler. Explorations in the emergency of morphology and locolotion behavior in animated characters. Jeffrey Ventrella. An instance of a parasitic replicator. Alun Rhys Jones and Adrian J. West. Author index.
An Equation that Chanqed the World: Newton. Einstein, and the Theoru of Relativity.
By Haxald Fritzsch, translated by Karin Heusch. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. (1994). 279 pages. $29.95.
Contents:
Preface to the English edition. Editorial Note. Introduction. 1. Newton and the ocean of truth. 2. Newton and absolute space. Haller's dream. 3. Meeting Newton. 4. A dialogue on light. 5. Newton meets Einstein. 6. The speed of light as a constant of nature. 7. Events, world lines, and a paradox. 8. Light in space and time. 9. Time dilation. 10. Fast muons live longer. 11. The twin paradox. 12. Space contradiction. 13. The marvel of space-time. 14. Mass in space and time. 15. An equation that changed the world. 16. The power of the sun. 17. Lightning at Alamogordo. 18. Energy hidden in the nucleus. 19. Mysterious antimatter. 20. Marveling at elementary particles. 21. Does matter decay? Epilogue. Sources of quotations. Suggested reading. Glossary. Index.