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ALife Meets Web: Lessons Learned

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Virtual Worlds (VW 1998)

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Artificial life might come to play important roles for the World Wide Web, both as a source of new algorithmic paradigms and as a source of inspiration for its future development. New Web searching and managing techniques, based on artificial life principles, have been elicited by the striking similarities between the Web and natural environments. New Web interface designs, based on artificial life techniques, have resulted in increased aesthetic appeal, smart animations, and clever interactive rules. In this paper we exemplify these observations by surveying a number of meeting points between artificial life and the Web. We touch on a few implementation issues and attempt to draw some lessons to be learned from these early experiences.

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  1. The Danish National Centre for IT-Research, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade bldg. 540, 8000, Aarhus C., Denmark

    Luigi Pagliarini

  2. Institute of Psychology, National Research Council, 15 Viale Marx, 00137, Rome, Italy

    Ariel Dolan

  3. Computer Science & Engr. Dept. Cognitive Science Dept., University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0114, USA

    Filippo Menczer

  4. The Danish National Centre for IT-Research, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade bldg. 540, 8000, Aarhus C., Denmark

    Henrik Hautop Lund

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  1. International Institute of Multimedia, Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci, F-92916, Paris La Defense Cedex, France

    Jean-Claude Heudin

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Pagliarini, L., Dolan, A., Menczer, F., Lund, H.H. (1998). ALife Meets Web: Lessons Learned. In: Heudin, JC. (eds) Virtual Worlds. VW 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1434. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-68686-X_15

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