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In the last decades of the 20th century we have seen media theories and cognitive sciences grow, mature and reach their pinnacles by analysing, each from their own disciplinary perspective, two of the same core phenomena: that of media as the environment, transmitter and creator of stimuli, and that of embodied human mind as the stimuli receiver, interpreter, experiencer, and also how both are affected by each other. Even though treating a range of very similar problems and coming to similar conclusions, this still has not brought these two disciplines closer together or resulted in their interdisciplinary approach. They did coalesce in regards to traditional media such as film, but more points of connection are needed for untangling interactive and immersive media environments and their effects on human cognition, action, and perception. With the rise of VR and VR-like systems, especially as they start to evolve into the Metaverse as their main platform of interconnectivity, the tissue of the body becomes almost physically intertwined with that of the virtual surrounding it inhabits through immersion. Simultaneously, the interest in these disciplines arises anew, and especially the need to use their concepts in an interdisciplinary way. This paper’s main interest is to bring these disciplines together in problematising the position of a physical body and its sensory-motor capabilities and their development within synthetic surroundings as Metaverse and anticipate potential downsides of Metaverse’s uncontrolled growth. We will do so also by looking into Metaverse as an artificial-life-like phenomenon, following artificial-life rules and evolving a completely new ‘corporeality’, a body which is completely adapted to virtual spaces. We call this body the Dry Body, an entity sharing cognitive resources with the physical body it is not a physical part of, but has to extend to. U poslednjim decenijama 20. veka videli smo kako medijske teorije i kognitivne nauke rastu, sazrevaju i dostižu svoje vrhunce analizirajući, svaki iz svoje disciplinske perspektive, dva srodna osnovna fenomena: medije kao okruženje, prenosioce i kreatore stimulusa i otelovljeni ljudski um u dinamičnoj interakciji sa okruženjem, kao i načine na koje mediji i um utiču na i transformišu jedno drugo. Iako tretiraju čitav niz veoma sličnih problema i dolaze do sličnih zaključaka, to ipak nije dovoljno približilo ove dve discipline niti je rezultiralo njihovim interdisciplinarnim pristupom rešavanju ovih pitanja. Pomak je napravljen kroz kognitivne teorije medija u kojima je fokus uglavnom na tradicionalnim medijskim formama poput filma. Ipak, potrebno je uspostavljanje više tačaka povezivanja za rasplet interaktivnih i imerzivnih medijskih okruženja i njihovih efekata na ljudsku kogniciju, akciju i percepciju. Sa usponom sistema virtuelne realnosti (VR), posebno u trenutku kada počinju da evoluiraju u Metaverzum kao svoju glavnu platformu povezivanja, tkivo tela postaje gotovo fizički isprepleteno sa tkivom virtuelnog okruženja u kom egzistira kroz uranjanje. Istovremeno sa Metaverzumom, iznova se javlja interesovanje za ove dve discipline, a posebno potreba da se njihovi koncepti koriste na interdisciplinaran način. Cilj ovog rada je da spoji ove discipline u problematizaciji položaja fizičkog tela i njegovih senzorno-motoričkih sposobnosti i njihovog razvoja u sintetičkom okruženju kao što je Metaverzum, kao i da predvidi potencijalne negativne strane nekontrolisanog rasta Metaverzuma. Metaverzum ćemo posmatrati kao fenomen veštačkog života, prateći pravila veštačkog života i razvijajući potpuno novu „telesnost“, odnosno telo koje je potpuno prilagođeno virtuelnim prostorima. Ovo telo nazivamo Suvim telom. Ono je entitet koji deli kognitivne resurse sa fizičkim telom čiji nije fizički deo, već se na njega proširuje. Polazimo od premise da svaka nova, inovativna tehnologija u svom razvoju sledi pravila algoritama rasta, što znači da se njeno konačno ‘krajnje stanje’ nikada ne može znati ili predvideti unapred, kao ni promene koje ona donosi u postojeći svet i njegov ekosistem. Što je veća inovacija, to je veći uticaj i promena na stvarni stvarni svet i naša biološka tela u njemu. Metaverzum, kao krajnja tehnička inovacija u oblasti virtuelnosti i manifestacija veštačkog života koji evolutivno prioritizuje „suva tela“, nosi sa sobom značajne i nepredvidive načine na koje se naša biološka tela dalje koriste i razvijaju. Konačno, naglašavamo važnost kontrolisanog, praćenog i doziranog kognitivnog učešća u Metaverse-u, kako bi se uspostavio i sačuvao kognitivni balans između suvih tela i bioloških tela.

The ancient town of Allifae (modern Alife) represents one of the most interesting settlements of the Northern Campania area that, together with the ancient city of Cales, was a thriving production centre of pottery. Excavations carried out inside the city wall, near the south gate, the so-called Porta Fiume, unearthed a huge dump of thin walled ware where the most abundant forms were cups and beakers, decorated with grooves or rouletting. The dump has been dated Augustan/ early Tiberian age (20 b.C.- 20 AD) and the thin walled vessels found can be identified with similar wares from Allifae, Cubulteria, Caiatia and perhaps Neapolis. Horace in his Sermones (II, 8,39) cited the Allifana beakers (described as fictiles ac subtiles by a Horace scholiast) and they could possibly be identified with the thin walled wares produced in Allifae. If this the case, then the thin walled vessels produced in Allifae were known in Rome as early as the end of I century B.C. In order to investigate and characterise the Allifae thin-walled pottery, twenty-one samples were selected and mineralogical-petrographic analyses (OM, XRPD, XRF and SEM/EDS) were carried out. The clayey raw material used was a low-CaO alluvial clayey deposit from the Middle Valley of the Volturno River. The potters probably handled the sediment by a levigation process in order to remove the coarser grains, and making the clay suitable to produce such thin walls. Comparison with other regional production of thin-walled pottery allowed us to strictly distinguish the Allifana beakers.

U ovom radu opisani su neki povijesni modeli umjetnog života i uveden je novi model u kojem se promatra interakcija između biljaka, biljojeda i predatora. Za povjesne modele opisane su ideje iza modela te tehnologije i mogućnosti koje ti modeli donose. U praktičnom dijelu izrađen je simulator na temelju novog modela i izvršeno ispitivanje simulatora. Prikazani su i objašnjeni neki od uobičajenih scenarija izvršavanja simulacije, demonstrirana je neizvjesnost života i izneseni problemi s kojima se suočavamo. This paper describes some historical models of artificial life and introduces a new model in which interactions between plants, herbivores and predators are observed. The ideas behind the historical models, technologies and capabilities that these models bring are also described. In the practical part of the assignment, simulator is made on the basis of the new model and then tested. Usual simulation scenarios were displayed and explained. The uncertainty of life was demonstraded and problems we're facing were demonstraded.

Inquadramento storico-culturale e archeologico del territorio alifano in età sannitica

Censimento e classificazione dei santuari e luoghi di culto preromani del territorio alifano.

We describe the upcoming art field termed robot art. Describing our group contribution to the world of robot art, a brief excursion on the importance of the underlying principles, of the context, of the message and its semiotic is also provided, case by case, together with few hints on the recent history of such a discipline, under the light of an artistic perspective. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to try to summarize the main characteristics that might classify ro-bot art as a unique and innovative discipline, and to track down some of the principles by which a robotic artifact can be considered - or not - an art piece, in terms of social, cultural and strictly artistic interest.

21pages; In the literature, there are many methods for image segmentation. Each method is often limited to a few number of images or are very sensitive to images artefacts like noise. Thus, there is no generic method for solving problems of image segmentation. In this report, we will introduce, study and improve a new segmentation method which uses a biological form of type spiders colonies system. The method developed will be presented with its drawbacks and the way to resolve them. Finally, some perspectives will be shown to improve the method and its results on MRI images.

One of the key components of the suspension of disbelief in real-time 3D simulations is the apparent authenticity of actions and gestures played by the individuals of the virtual population. This paper addresses this aspect of simulation, by investigating ways to improve the behavioral realism of virtual humanoid characters in groups and small multitudes. We look at the framework of ALife, identifying and analyzing existing bio-micking techniques that can be used in this context and contribute towards the improvement of the plausibility from the generated simulations. By looking at the literature, we identify some of the key elements from ALife that are being progressively incorporated in the simulations of groups and crowds. Then, we discuss a generative model for spontaneity and heterogeneity where bio-inspired agents are individualized with DNA-like strings and appear organized hierarchically exchanging token units of energy, mass, and resources. The result is a generative population of agents that self-organize and interact autonomously, exhibiting interesting social dynamics based on biological tenets and an economy of resources. We analyze this simulation quantitatively with the purpose of studying the impact of each of the previously identified techniques., This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 655226.

Network Biology ISSN 2220-8879 URL: http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/nb/online-version.asp RSS: http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/nb/rss.xml E-mail: networkbiology@iaees.org Editor-in-Chief: WenJun Zhang Aims and Scope NETWORK BIOLOGY (ISSN 2220-8879; CODEN NBEICS) is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal that considers scientific articles in all different areas of network biology. It is the transactions of the International Society of Network Biology. It dedicates to the latest advances in network biology. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas. The topics to be covered by Network Biology include, but are not limited to: •Theories, algorithms and programs of network analysis •Innovations and applications of biological networks •Ecological networks, food webs and natural equilibrium •Co-evolution, co-extinction, biodiversity conservation •Metabolic networks, protein-protein interaction networks, biochemical reaction networks, gene networks, transcriptional regulatory networks, cell cycle networks, phylogenetic networks, network motifs •Physiological networks •Network regulation of metabolic processes, human diseases and ecological systems •Social networks, epidemiological networks •System complexity, self-organized systems, emergence of biological systems, agent-based modeling, individual-based modeling, neural network modeling, and other network-based modeling, etc. We are also interested in short communications that clearly address a specific issue or completely present a new ecological network, food web, or metabolic or gene network, etc. Authors can submit their works to the email box of this journal, networkbiology@iaees.org. All manuscripts submitted to this journal must be previously unpublished and may not be considered for publication elsewhere at any time during review period of this journal. Authors are asked to read Author Guidelines before submitting manuscripts. In addition to free submissions from authors around the world, special issues are also accepted. The organizer of a special issue can collect submissions (yielded from a research project, a research group, etc.) on a specific research topic, or submissions of a scientific conference for publication of special issue.

Network Biology ISSN 2220-8879 URL: http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/nb/online-version.asp RSS: http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/nb/rss.xml E-mail: networkbiology@iaees.org Editor-in-Chief: WenJun Zhang Aims and Scope NETWORK BIOLOGY (ISSN 2220-8879; CODEN NBEICS) is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal that considers scientific articles in all different areas of network biology. It is the transactions of the International Society of Network Biology. It dedicates to the latest advances in network biology. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas. The topics to be covered by Network Biology include, but are not limited to: •Theories, algorithms and programs of network analysis •Innovations and applications of biological networks •Ecological networks, food webs and natural equilibrium •Co-evolution, co-extinction, biodiversity conservation •Metabolic networks, protein-protein interaction networks, biochemical reaction networks, gene networks, transcriptional regulatory networks, cell cycle networks, phylogenetic networks, network motifs •Physiological networks •Network regulation of metabolic processes, human diseases and ecological systems •Social networks, epidemiological networks •System complexity, self-organized systems, emergence of biological systems, agent-based modeling, individual-based modeling, neural network modeling, and other network-based modeling, etc. We are also interested in short communications that clearly address a specific issue or completely present a new ecological network, food web, or metabolic or gene network, etc. Authors can submit their works to the email box of this journal, networkbiology@iaees.org. All manuscripts submitted to this journal must be previously unpublished and may not be considered for publication elsewhere at any time during review period of this journal. Authors are asked to read Author Guidelines before submitting manuscripts. In addition to free submissions from authors around the world, special issues are also accepted. The organizer of a special issue can collect submissions (yielded from a research project, a research group, etc.) on a specific research topic, or submissions of a scientific conference for publication of special issue.