Artificial Life
Proceedings Of An Interdisciplinary Workshop On The Synthesis And Simulation Of Living Systems
- 700 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Artificial Life
Proceedings Of An Interdisciplinary Workshop On The Synthesis And Simulation Of Living Systems
About this book
"In September 1987, the first workshop on Artificial Life was held at the Los
Alamos National Laboratory. Jointly sponsored by the Center for Nonlinear Studies,
the Santa Fe Institute, and Apple Computer Inc, the workshop brought together
160 computer scientists, biologists, physicists, anthropologists, and other assorted
""-ists, "" all of whom shared a common interest in the simulation and synthesis of
living systems. During five intense days, we saw a wide variety of models of living
systems, including mathematical models for the origin of life, self-reproducing
automata, computer programs using the mechanisms of Darwinian evolution to produce
co-adapted ecosystems, simulations of flocking birds and schooling fish, the
growth and development of artificial plants, and much, much more
The workshop itself grew out of my frustration with the fragmented nature
of the literature on biological modeling and simulation. For years I had prowled
around libraries, shifted through computer-search results, and haunted bookstores,
trying to get an overview of a field which I sensed existed but which did not seem
to have any coherence or unity. Instead, I literally kept stumbling over interesting
work almost by accident, often published in obscure journals if published at all."
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Series Page
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contents
- Artificial Life
- Artificial Organisms: History, Problems, and Directions
- Simulations, Realizations, and Theories of Life
- Towards a Quantitative Theory of the Origin of Life
- Cellular Automata, Reaction-Diffusion Systems, and the Origin of Life
- Precipitation Membranes, Osmotic Growths, and Synthetic Biology
- Evolving Bugs in a Simulated Ecosystem
- The Genetic Algorithm and Simulated Evolution
- Human Culture: A Genetic Takeover Underway
- The Evolution of Evolvability
- Developmental Models of Multicellular Organisms: A Computer Graphics Perspective
- The Artificial Menagerie
- RAM: Artificial Life for the Exploration of Complex Biological Systems
- Mirror Beyond Mirror: Puddles of Life
- Movable Finite Automata (MFA): A New Tool for Computer Modeling of Living Systems
- Computational Metabolism: Towards Biological Geometries for Computing
- Typogenetics: A Logic for Artificial Life
- Lego, Logo, and Life
- Modeling Behavior in Petworld
- Animal Construction Kits
- Nanotechnology with Feynman Machines: Scanning Tunneling Engineering and Artificial Life
- Biological and Nanomechanical Systems: Contrasts in Evolutionary Capacity
- Molecular Automata in Microtubules: Basic Computational Logic of the Living State?
- Some Types of Movements
- Annotated Bibliography
- Index