Archeosema. Artificial Adaptive Systems for the Analysis of Complex Phenomena. Collected papers in Honour of David Leonard Clarke. Preface.

ARCHEOSEMA (AS), a meta-disciplinary project of theoretical, analytical and experimental archaeology, has been recently awarded by La Sapienza University of Rome. The project title is an acronym which sums up its two main theoretical foundations: the openness of modern archaeology (ARCHEO) to the analysis of physical, historical, linguistic signs (SEMA) underlying natural and cultural systems reconstructed and simulated through Artificial Sciences. The project is therefore connected to the construction of models conceived as both epistemological and methodological tools: indeed, on the epistemological level, ARCHEOSEMA is an interdisciplinary research program founded on the constructive dialogue between theoretical and experimental Archaeology with Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Geography and Linguistics (Ramazzotti 2010); on the methodological level, it aims to solve problems of classification, organisation and structure of alphanumeric data; to implement dynamic simulation of the variables that constitute natural organic systems and/or cultural systems; to identify new rules for spatial organisation and, in addition, to explore the physical, aesthetical, linguistic and cognitive phenomena underlying isomorphism, self-organisation, entropy, learning and translation