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From: Chris Harris <charris@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Artificial Life 1:4
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bill@otherwise.com (Bill Tschumy) wrote:
>I recently received #4 of vol 1 of Artificial Life.  I was a bit
>surprised to see that it republished 2 papers that had appeared in
>Artificial Life IV (Proceedings of 4th Alife Workshop).  The papers
>were indeed noteworthy (Terzopoulos et. al.'s Artificial fish
>simulation and Sim's Evolving Morphology paper), but I question the
>republishing of papers that have appeared recently elsewhere in
>virtually identical form.
>
>I would think that most people subscribing to Artificial Life would
>have picked up the Proceedings also.  I find it hard to believe that
>there are not numerous unpublished manuscripts that would be worthy of
>publication in Artificial Life.
>
>I'm curious what others feel about this situation?

I'm a bit annoyed actually. After paying an enormous price for the ALIVE IV
proceedings, I definitely don't want to pay to have another copy of the same
papers, with just a couple of colour prints as enhancement. In fact it's worse
than you say, because the Evolving Visual Routines paper was in there too.

I won't be renewing my subscription until things get a bit better. 

Chris Harris

