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Introduction To Artificial Life (Alife) : Computational Modeling Lab

This document provides an introduction to artificial life (ALife) from the Computational Modeling Lab at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. It discusses that ALife aims to improve understanding of living systems and build artificial models that perform tasks through computational modeling of natural systems. The document outlines topics in ALife like artificial chemistry, cellular automata, evolutionary dynamics, and artificial evolution. It also provides sources for further information on ALife, including books, proceedings, papers, and websites.

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Introduction To Artificial Life (Alife) : Computational Modeling Lab

This document provides an introduction to artificial life (ALife) from the Computational Modeling Lab at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. It discusses that ALife aims to improve understanding of living systems and build artificial models that perform tasks through computational modeling of natural systems. The document outlines topics in ALife like artificial chemistry, cellular automata, evolutionary dynamics, and artificial evolution. It also provides sources for further information on ALife, including books, proceedings, papers, and websites.

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Introduction to Artificial Life (Alife)
Computational Modeling Lab
Computer Science Department
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
http://como.vub.ac.be
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COMO?
Members;
B. Manderick, A. Now, K. Verbeeck, J . Parent
N. De Bruyne, T. Lenaerts, P. van Remortel and A. Defaweux
Research
Reinforcement Learning
(CO) Evolutionary Algorithms
Fuzzy systems
Neural Networks
Adaptive systems in non-stationary environments (MAS)
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What are we going to talk about?
Alife ?
Models in
Alife
Topics
Models
self-
replication
evolution
emergence
explicit
fitness
implicit
fitness
CO-EA
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What is Alife?
Large collection of descriptions about
What Alife currently is
Or what Alife should be
Questions?
Founder: C. langton (1987 workshop: Synthesis and simulation of
biological systems)
Summary = Computational Modeling of Living Systems
To
1. Improve understanding of living systems
2. Build artificial models which perform particular tasks
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Model spectrum of Alife?
Large interdisciplinary field with their own views on and
interests in Alife.
Debate on the future of Alife
Models to perform
computational tasks
Creating life-like systems
in artificial media
Simulating life-like
behavior to improve
understanding
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Topics and applications;(non-exhaustive)
Artificial Chemistry [Fontana, ]
Cellular Automata [Forrest, Sipper, ]
Evolutionary Dynamics [Maynard Smith,Kauffman]
RNA Worlds [Ray, ]
Animation industry [Simms, Near Life, ]
Philosophy[Keeley, Dennett, Boden, ]
Competitive behavior [Simms, Hillis, ]
Artificial Evolution [Holland, Koza, Goldberg,]
Robotics [Brooks, Steels,]
Entertainment industry [Creatures, Evolva, ]
Collective behavior [Swarm, Echo,]
Wetware [Taylor, Jefferson, ]
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Sources on Alife; (non-exhaustive)
Books
C. G. Langton, editor, Artificial Life an overview, MIT Press,1995.
C. Adami, Introduction to Artificial Life, Springer-Verlag, 1998.
M. Boden, editor, The Philosophy of Artificial Life, OUP, 1996
Steven Levy, Artificial Life, Penguin Books, 1993
Proceedings
C. G. Langton,editor, Artificial Life I-III (workshop proceedings), Addison
Wesley (1989, 1991, 1993)
R. A. Brooks and P. Maes,editors, Artificial Life IV, MIT Press, 1995
C. Langton and T. Shimihara, editors, Artificial Life V, MIT Press, 1997
C. Adami, R. Belew, H. Kitano and C. Taylor, editors, Artificial Life VI, MIT
Press, 1998
(ECAL proceedings), (Alife journals),
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Papers
M. Sipper, An Introduction to Artificial Life, Explorations in Artificial Life, 1995
M. Sipper, If the Milieu is Reasonable: Lessons from Nature on Creating Life,
Journal of Transfigural Mathematics, Vol 3, No 1, 1997

Web
The Complexity and Artificial Research Concept for Self-Organizing Systems
(http://www.calresco.org/)
A philosophy of Artificial Life Bibliography
(http://artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/pnp/alife/alife_bib.html)
Artificial Life Online 2.0 (http://alife.org/) replaces
Alife Online (http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/)
Complex Adaptive Systems and Artificial Life
(http://lslwww.epfl.ch/~moshes/caslinks.html)
Zooland
(http://alife.santafe.edu/~joke/zooland/)

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