Artificial life : the proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems held September, 1987, in Los Alamos, New Mexico
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Artificial life : the proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems held September, 1987, in Los Alamos, New Mexico
(Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity, . Proceedings ; v. 6)
Addison-Wesley Pub., c1989
- : hard
- : pbk
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Note
"In September 1987, the First Workshop on Artificial Life was held at the Los Alamos National Laboratory"--Pref
Bibliography: p. 567-643
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Artificial Life is the study of synthetic systems that exhibit behaviors characteristics of natural living systems. It complements the traditional biological sciences concerned with the analysis of living organisms by attempting to synthesize lifelike behaviors within computers and other artificial media. By extending the empirical foundation upon which biology is based beyond the carbon-chain of life that has evolved on Earth, Artificial Life can contribute to theoretical biology by locating life as we know it within the larger picture of life as it could be. This bookThe Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop On The Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systemsintroduces the field of Artificial Life, reviews its biological roots, discusses its goals and methodological approaches, and gives examples of modeling technologies and their application to the simulation of specific biological phenomena. It draws comparisons with similar bottom up approaches to the understanding of complex systems as studied in fields such as Physics, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence.
The book also contains an extensive annotated bibliography of more than 500 citations of work relevant to the field of Artificial Life.
Table of Contents
* Artificial Organisms: History, Problems, and Directions Richard Laing * Simulations, Realizations, and Theories of Life H.H. Pattee * Towards a Quantitative Theory of the Origin of Life Steen Rasmussen * Cellular Automata, Reaction-Diffusion Systems, and the Origin of Life Pablo Tamayo and Hyman Hartman * Precipitation Membranes, Osmotic Growths, and Synthetic Biology Milan Zeleny, George J. Klir and Kevin D. Hufford * Evolving Bugs in a Simulated Ecosystem Norman Packard * The Genetic Algorithm and Simulated Evolution Stewart W. Wilson * Human Culture: A Genetic Takeover Underway Hans Moravec * The Evolution of Evolvability Richard Dawkins * Developmental Models of Multicellular Organisms: A Computer Graphics Perspective Astrid Lindenmayer and Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz * The Artificial Menagerie Peter Oppenheimer * RAM: Artificial Life for the Exploration of Complex Biological Systems Charles E. Taylor, David R. Jefferson, Scott R. Turner and Seth R. Goldman * Mirror Beyond Mirror: Puddles of Life P. Hogeweg * Movable Finite Automata (MFA): A New Tool for Computer Modeling of Living Systems Narendra S. Goel and Richard L. Thompson * Computational Metabolism: Towards Biological Geometries for Computing Marek W. Lugowski * Typogenetics: A Logic for Artificial Life Harold C. Morris * Lego, Logo, and Life Mitchel Resnick * Modeling Behavior in Petworld Bill Coderre * Animal Construction Kits Michael Travers * Nanotechnology with Feynman Machines: Scanning Tunneling Engineering and Artificial Life Conrad Schneiker * Biological and Nanomechanical Systems: Contrasts in Evolutionary Capacity K. Erik Drexler * Molecular Automata in Microtubules: Basic Computational Logic of the Living State? Stuart Hameroff, Steen Rasmussen and Bengt Mansson * Some Types of Movements Valentino Braitenberg
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