Editors’ Note: Introduction to the Special Issue

Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue

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Experiments in Digital Evolution (Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue)

Whether or not the field of artificial life has succeeded in doing what its name suggests, namely synthesizing life from non-living components, is a matter of contention. Clearly, this journal covers a broad range of topics related to the synthesis and simulation of living systems, but only a few articles go so far as to unabashedly study wholly artificial forms of life. The field of digital ev...

Editors' introduction to the special issue: papers from LREC 2014

This special issue of Language Resources and Evaluation includes a selection of extended papers from the Ninth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in May 2014. The conference drew a record number of participants, reflecting the steadily increasing interest and activity in the field of language resource creation, enhancement, management, and evaluation since...

Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue on Bayesian Nonparametrics

BAYESIAN nonparametric models are probabilistic models defined over infinite-dimensional parameter spaces. For Gaussian process models of regression and classification functions, the parameter space consists of a set of continuous functions. For the Dirichlet process mixture models used in density estimation and clustering, the parameter space is dense in the space of probability measures. Baye...

Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue on "Bioinspired Optimization"