Artificial life as an aid to astrobiology: Testing life seeking techniques

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2801, Issue , 2003, Pages 31-40

  Centler, Florian ^a   Dittrich, Peter ^a   Ku, Lawrence ^b   Matsumaru, Naoki ^a   Pfaffmann, Jeffrey ^b   Zauner, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTIFICIAL CHEMISTRY MODELS; ARTIFICIAL LIFE; AUTONOMOUS DEVICES; CHEMICAL SIGNATURES; COMPLEX CHEMICALS; REMOTE LOCATION; SEARCH FOR LIFE; SMALL PATCHES;

EARTH (PLANET); BIODIVERSITY;

ASTROBIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES; BIOSPHERES; COMPLEX CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENTS;

EID: 7444254801     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39432-7_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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