Abstract :
The Third International IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE ALIFE 2011) held for the first time in Europe, in the intellectual, cultural and scientific cauldron of Paris, brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, aiming to understand and synthesize life-like systems and applying bio-inspired synthetic methods to other science/engineering disciplines, including Biology, Robotics, Social Sciences, among others.