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Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems
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Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems --Proc.Abstract:
Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems --Proc. of the First European Conference on Artificial Life, edited by F. Varela and P. Bourgine, The MIT Press, 1992, ISBN 0 262 72019 1, 515 pp.read more
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