Hemingway and sport: games, fights, and races

In West Africa, Games, Sport and Tradition

The traditional culture of play and movement in West Africa offers obvious possibilities for an original “alternative” culture. But this culture, which in reality no longer exists in the primary sense of the word, is still too often observed in a selective and unverified manner, should not be overestimated ; still less should it be opposed in a critical way to the modern concept of sport and it...

Arms Races and Car Races

Evolutionary car racing (ECR) is extended to the case of two cars racing on the same track. A sensor representation is devised, and various methods of evolving car controllers for competitive racing are explored. ECR can be combined with co-evolution in a wide variety of ways, and one aspect which is explored here is the relative-absolute fitness continuum. Systematical behavioural differences ...

Modeling and Simulation of Sport Games, Sport Movements, and Adaptations to Training (Dagstuhl Seminar 15382)

Modeling and Simulation of Sport Games, Sport Movements, and Adaptations to Training

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 15382 “Modeling and Simulation of Sport Games, Sport Movements, and Adaptations to Training”. The primary goal of the seminar was the continuation of the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinarity research in sports and computer science with the emphasis on modeling and simulation technologies. In this seminar, experts on mod...

Profile of Janet Hemingway.

As the wheels of a biplane approach a desolate airfield in the Solomon Islands, a man wearing only a loincloth breaks through the brush, brandishing a spear and a flail. From behind the plane’s windows four biologists watch with wary eyes and silently map an escape route. “You’re thinking, ‘What am I supposed to do here?’” recalls Janet Hemingway, Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Me...