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Christopher G. Langton, editor. Artificial Life: proceedings of an interdisciplinary workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Los Alamos, 1987. Addison-Wesley. 1989

 

Contents

Howard H. Pattee.
Simulations, Realizations, and Theories of Life
Many of the controversies in AI result from the multiple use of computation as a conceptual theory, as an empirical tool, as simulation, and as realization of thought. AL models will have to make these distinctions.
... it was also clear that the environment was too simple to produce interesting emergent behaviour.
Christopher G. Langton.
Artificial Life
updated in The Philosophy of Artificial Life
Richard Laing.
Artificial Organisms: History, Problems, and Directions
Steen Rasmussen.
Towards a Quantitiative Theory of the Origin of Life
Pablo Tamayo, Hyman Hartman.
Cellular Automata, Reaction-Diffusion Systems, and the Origin of Life
Milan Zeleny, George J. Klir, Kevin D. Hufford.
Precipitation Membranes, Osmotic Growths, and Synthetic Biology
Norman H. Packard.
Evolving Bugs in a Simulated Ecosystem
Stewart W. Wilson.
The Genetic Algorithm and Simulated Evolution
Hans Moravec.
Human Culture: A Genetic Takeover Underway
Richard Dawkins.
The Evolution of Evolvability. 1989
Aristid Lindenmayer, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz.
Developmental Models of Multicellular Organisms: A Computer Graphics Perspective
Peter Oppenheimer.
The Artificial Menagerie
Charles E. Taylor, David R. Jefferson, Scott R. Turner, Seth R. Goldman.
RAM: Artificial Life for the Exploration of Complex Biological Systems
Paulien Hogeweg.
Mirror Beyond Mirror: Puddles of Life
Narendra S. Goel, Richard L. Thompson.
Movable Finite Automata (MFA): A New Tool for Computer Modelling of Living Systems
Marek W. Lugowski.
Computational Metabolism: Towards Biological Geometries for Computing
Harold C. Morris.
Typogenetics: A Logic for Artificial Life
Mitchel Resnick.
Lego, Logo, and Life
Bill Coderre.
Modeling Behavior in Petworld
Michael Travers.
Animal Construction Kits
Conrad Schneiker.
Nanotechnology with Feynman Machines: Scanning Tunneling Engineering and Artificial Life
K. Eric Drexler.
Biological and Nanomechanical Systems: Contrasts in Evolving Capacity
Stuart R. Hameroff, Steen Rasmussen, Bengt Mansson.
Molecular Automata in Microtubules: Basic Computaional Logic of the Living State?
Valentino Braitenberg.
Some Types of Movements
Christopher G. Langton, et al..
Annotated Bibliography of Literature in the Field of Artificial Life
Aristid Lindenmayer, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz.
Annotated Bibliography of Plant Modeling and Growth Simulation

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Christopher G. Langton. Computation at the Edge of Chaos: phase-transitions and emergent computation. University of Michigan. 1991

 

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Christopher G. Langton, Charles E. Taylor, J. Doyne Farmer, Steen Rasmussen, editors. Artificial Life II: proceedings of the workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Santa Fe, 1990. Addison Wesley. 1992

 

The papers are gathered under the following headings: • Overview • Origin/Self-Organization • Evolutionary Dynamics • Development • Learning and Evolution • Computation • Philosophy/Emergence • The Future

Contents

Thomas S. Ray.
An Approach to the Synthesis of Life
A description of his virtual Tierra environment, for studying artificial open-ended evolution
Christopher G. Langton.
Introduction to Artificial Life II
Charles E. Taylor.
"Fleshing Out" Artificial Life II
Christopher G. Langton.
Life at the Edge of Chaos
Richard J. Bagley, J. Doyne Farmer.
Spontaneous Emergence of a Metabolism
Richard J. Bagley, J. Doyne Farmer, Walter Fontana.
Evolution of a Metabolism
Walter Fontana.
Algorithmic Chemistry
Steen Rasmussen, Carsten Knudsen, Rasmus Feldberg.
Dynamics of Programmable Matter
Maarten Boerlijst, Paulien Hogeweg.
Self-Structuring and Selection: Spiral Waves as a Substrate for Prebiotic Evolution
Peter Schuster.
Complex Optimization in an Artificial RNA World
Kristian Lindgren.
Evolutionary Phenomena in Simple Dynamics
W. Daniel Hillis.
Co-Evolving Parasites Improve Simulated Evolution as an Optimization Procedure. 1990
Stuart A. Kauffman, Sonke Johnson.
Co-Evolution to the Edge of Chaos: Coupled Fitness Landscapes, Poised States, and Co-Evolutionary Avalanches
David G. Stork, Bernie Jackson, Scott Walker.
"Non-Optimality" via Pre-Adaptation in Simple Neural Systems
Mark A. Bedau, Norman H. Packard.
Measurement of Evolutionary Activity, Teleology, and Life
Martin J. de Boer, F. David Fracchia, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz.
Analysis and Simulation of the Development of Cellular Layers
David H. Ackley, Michael L. Littman.
Interactions Between Learning and Evolution
Richard K. Belew, John McInerney, Nicol N. Schraudolph.
Evolving Networks: Using the Genetic Algorithm with Connectionist Learning
David R. Jefferson, Robert J. Collins, Claus Cooper, Michael Dyer, Margot Flowers, Richard Korf, Charles E. Taylor, Alan Wang.
Evolution as a Theme in Artificial Life: The Genesys/Tracker System
Robert J. Collins, David R. Jefferson.
AntFarm: Towards Simulated Evolution
John R. Koza.
Genetic Evolution and Co-Evolution of Computer Programs
Bruce J. MacLennan.
Synthetic Ethology: An Approach to the Study of Communication
Gregory M. Werner, Michael G. Dyer.
Evolution of Communication in Artificial Organisms
Edwin Hutchins, Brian Hazlehurst.
Learning in the Cultural Process
Alvy Ray Smith.
Simple Nontrivial Self-Reproducing Machines
Eugene H. Spafford.
Computer Viruses--A Form of Artificial Life?
Elliott Sober.
Learning from Functionalism--Prospects for Strong Artificial Life
Steen Rasmussen.
Aspects of Information, Life, Reality, and Physics
Peter Cariani.
Emergence and Artificial Life
Louis Bec.
Elements d'Epistemologie Fabulatoire
[in French]
J. Doyne Farmer, Alletta d'A. Belin.
Artificial Life: The Coming Evolution

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Christopher G. Langton, editor. Artificial Life III. Addison-Wesley. 1994

 

Contents

Erik Schultes.
An Instance of a Replicator
David H. Ackley, Michael L. Littman.
A Case for Lamarckian Evolution
Per Bak, Henrik Flyvbjerg, Benny Lathrup.
Evolution and Coevolution in a Rugged Fitness Landscape
Kunihiko Kaneko, Junji Suzuki.
Evolution to the Edge of Chaos in an Imitation Game
Peter J. Angeline, Jordan B. Pollack.
Coevolving High-Level Representations
Kristian Lindgren, Mats G. Nordahl.
Artificial Food Webs
Alan R. Johnson.
Evolution of a Size-Structured, Predator-Prey Community
E. Ann Stanley, Dan Ashlock, Leigh Tesfatsion.
Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma with Choice and Refusal of Partners
Yukihiko Toquenaga, Masanori Ichinose, Tsutomu Hoshino, Koichi Fujii.
Contest and Scramble Competitions in an Artificial World Genetic Analysis with Genetic Algorithms
J. Stephen Lansing, James N. Kremer.
Emergent Properties of Balinese Water Temple Networks: Coadaptation on a Rugged Fitness Landscape
John R. Koza.
Artificial Life: Spontaneous Emergence of Self-Replicating and Evolutionary Self-Improving Computer Programs
Larry Yaeger.
Computational Genetics, Physiology, Metabolism, Neural Systems, Learning, Vision, and Behavior or PolyWorld: Life in a New Context
Craig W. Reynolds.
An Evolved, Vision-Based Model of Obstacle Avoidance Behavior
David Zeltzer, Michael McKenna.
Simulation of Autonomous Legged Locomotion
Johndale C. Solem.
The Motility of Microrobots
Harold J. Morowitz.
Artificial Biochemistry, Life Before Enzymes
Kurt Fleischer, Alan H. Barr.
A Simulation Testbed for the Study of Multicellular Development: The Multiple Mechanisms of Morphogenesis
Mark M. Millonas.
Swarms, Phase Transitions, and Collective Intelligence
Jeffrey O. Kephart.
How Topology Affects Population Dynamics
Andrew Wuensche.
The Ghost in the Machine
Carlo C. Maley.
The Computational Completeness of Ray's Tierran Assembly Language
Nils A. Baas.
Emergence, Hierarchies, and Hyperstructures
Stevan Harnad.
Artificial Life: Synthetic vs. Virtual
Claus Emmeche.
Is Life as a Multiverse Phenomenon?
Brian L. Keeley.
Against the Global Replacement: On the Application of the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Life

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Christopher G. Langton, editor. Artificial Life: an Overview. MIT Press. 1995

 

[reprint of the first 3 issues of the journal Artificial Life, 1993/1994]

Contents

Charles E. Taylor, David R. Jefferson.
Artificial Life as a Tool for Biological Inquiry
Kristian Lindgren, Mats G. Nordahl.
Cooperation and Community Structure in Artificial Ecosystems
Peter Schuster.
Extended Molecular Evolutionary Biology: Artificial Life Bridging the Gap Between Chemistry and Biology
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz.
Visual Models of Morphogenesis
Luc Steels.
The Artificial Life Roots of Artificial Intelligence
Michael G. Dyer.
Toward Synthesizing Artificial Neural Networks that Exhibit Cooperative Intelligent Behavior: Some Open Issues in Artificial Life
Pattie Maes.
Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents
Kunihiko Kaneko.
Chaos as a Source of Complexity and Diversity in Evolution
Thomas S. Ray.
An Evolutionary Approach to Synthetic Biology: Zen and the Art of Creating Life
Walter Fontana, Gilmer Wagner, Leo W. Buss.
Beyond Digital Naturalism
Mitchel Resnick.
Learning About Life
David G. Stork.
Books on Artificial Life and Related Topics
Eugene H. Spafford.
Computer Viruses as Artificial Life
Melanie Mitchell, Stephanie Forrest.
Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life
Daniel C. Dennett.
Artificial Life as Philosophy. 1994
In this manifesto in the first issue of the Artificial Life journal, Dennett explains why the study of Artificial Life is important as a new philosophical method.
Stevan Hamad.
Levels of Functional Equivalence in Reverse Bioengineering
Eric W. Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz.
Why Do We Need Artificial Life?

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Christopher G. Langton, Katsunori Shimohara, editors. Artificial Life V: proceedings of the fifth international workshop on the synthesis and simulation of living systems, Nara, Japan. MIT Press. 1996

 

Contents

Arthur W. Burks.
Creative Uses of Logic in the Invention of the Electronic Computer
Koji Ikuta.
3D-Micro Integrated Fluidic System toward Living LSI
Marvin L. Minsky.
How Computer Science will Change Our Lives
Hirofumi Miura, Takashi Yasuda, Yayoi Kubo Fujisawa, Yoshihiko Kuwana, Shoji Takeuchi, Isao Shimoyama.
Insect-Model Based Microrobot
Shouji Tatsukawa.
Old Japanese Robot (Karakuri-Ningyo)
Owen E. Holland.
Grey Walter: The Pioneer of Real Artificial Life
Olivier Beuret, Marco Tomassini.
Behaviour of Multiple Generalized Langton's Ants
Hiroshi Yokoi, Takafumi Mizuno, Masatoshi Takita, Jun Hakura, Yukinori Kakazu.
Amoeba Like Self-Organization Model Using Vibrating Potential Field
Owen E. Holland, Chris R. Melhuish.
Getting the Most from the Least: Lessons for the Nanoscale from Minimal Mobile Agents
Mari Nakamura, Koichi Kurumatani.
Formation Mechanism of Pheromone Pattern and Control of Foraging Behavior in an Ant Colony Model
Lawrence Bull, Terence C. Fogarty.
Horizontal Gene Transfer in Endosymbiosis
Gregory M. Werner.
Why the Peacock's Tail is so Short: Limits to Sexual Selection
Jordan B. Pollack, Alan D. Blair, Mark Land.
Coevolution of a Backgammon Player
Atsushi Shinjoh, Masanao Takeyama.
Spatial Analysis of Artificial World
Hideaki Suzuki.
Functional Emergence with Multiple von Neumann Computers
David H. Ackley.
ccr: A Network of Worlds for Research
Nuno Gracias, Henrique Pereira, Jose Allen Lima, Agostinho Rosa.
Gaia: An Artificial Life Environment for Ecological Systems Simulation
Hansrudi Noser, Igor Sunday Pandzic, Tolga K. Capin, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann.
Playing Games through the Virtual Life Network
Naoko Tosa, Ryohei Nakatsu.
The Esthetics of Artificial Life: Human-Like Communication Character, "MIC" & Feeling Improvisation Character, "MUSE"
Luigi Pagliarini, Henrik Hautop Lund, Orazio Miglino, Domenico Parisi.
Artificial Life: A New Way to Build Educational and Therapeutic Games
Yoichiro Kawaguchi.
The Art of the GROWTH Algorithm with Cells
Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau.
"A-Volve" an Evolutionary Artificial Life Environment
Luc Steels.
Self-Organizing Vocabularies
Akira Ito.
How do Selfish Agents Learn to Cooperate?
Eizo Akiyama, Kunihiko Kaneko.
Evolution of Communication and Strategies in an Iterated Three-Person Game
Bruno Beaufils, Jean-Paul Delahaye, Philippe Mathieu.
Our Meeting with Gradual: A Good Strategy for the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
Hitoshi Hemmi, Jun'ichi Mizoguchi, Katsunori Shimohara.
Evolving Large Scale Digital Circuits
Hiroaki Kitano.
Towards Evolvable Electro-Biochemical Systems
Kurt Fleischer.
Investigations with a Multicellular Developmental Model
Akira Onitsuka, Jari Vaario, Kanji Ueda.
Structural Formation by Enhanced Diffusion Limited Aggregation Model
Jari Vaario, Naoko Ogata, Katsunori Shimohara.
Synthesis of Environment Directed and Genetic Growth
Federico Moran, Alvaro Moreno, Eric Minch, Francisco Montero.
Further Steps towards a Realistic Description of the Essence of Life
Brian L. Keeley.
Evaluating Artificial Life and Artificial Organisms
Kanji Ueda.
Differentiation of the Realms of Artifacts and Information: How does it Relate to Parts/Whole and InŽside/Outside?
Jan T. Kim.
Distance Distribution Complexity: A Measure for the Structured Diversity of Evolving Populations
Peter M. Todd, Geoffrey F. Miller.
Biodiversity through Sexual Selection
Yukihiko Toquenaga, Takuya Saruwatari, Tsutomu Hoshino.
Repairing Genetic Algorithm and Diversity in Artificial Ecosystems
C. Ilia Herraiz, J. J. Merelo, Sergio Olmeda, A. Prieto.
An Individual-Based Model that Reproduces Natural Distribution of Species Abundance and Diversity
Masayuki Inaba, Satoshi Kagami, Fumio Kanehiro, Kenichiro Nagasaka, Hirochika Inoue.
Mother Operations to Evolve Embodied Robots Based on the Remote-Brained Approach
John R. Koza, Forrest H. Bennett III, David Andre, Martin A. Keane.
Toward Evolution of Electronic Animals Using Genetic Programming
Henrik Hautop Lund, Domenico Parisi.
Generalist and Specialist Behavior due to Individual Energy Extracting Abilities
Demetri Terzopoulos, Tamer Rabie, Radek Grzeszczuk.
Perception and Learning in Artificial Animals
Fuminori Saito, Toshio Fukuda.
First Result of the Brachiator III - A New Brachiation Robot Modeled on a Siamang
Kazuo Hosokawa, Isao Shimoyama, Hirofumi Miura.
Self-Assembling Microstructures
Yoshihiko Kuwana, Isao Shimoyama, Yushi Sayama, Hirofumi Miura.
A Robot that Behaves like a Silkworm Moth in the Pheromone Stream
Christian M. Reidys, Stephan Kopp, Peter Schuster.
Evolutionary Optimization of Biopolymers and Sequence Structure Maps
John Carnahan, Song-gang Li, Carlo Costantini, Yeya T. Toure, Charles E. Taylor.
Computer Simulation of Dispersal by Anopheles Gambiae in West Africa
H. Ohtake, T. Yako, T. Tsuji, J. Kato, A. Kuroda, M. Kaneko.
An Approach to Molecular Artificial Life: Bacterial Intelligent Behavior and its Computer Model
Tetsuya Yomo, Toshiyuki Habu, Shiro Soga, Tomoaki Matsuura, Yasufumi Shima, Itaru Urabe.
In Vitro Self-Replication System as a Minimum Set of Life
Yasuhiro Kikuchi, Hirofumi Doi.
Simulating Evolution of the Vitality by the Biased Mutation Model
Mikael Cronhjort, Clas Blomberg.
Chasing: A Mechanism for Resistance against Parasites in Self-Replicating Systems
Shinichiro Yoshii, Hiroaki Inayoshi, Yukinori Kakazu.
Atomoid: A New Prospect in Reaction-Formation System Spontaneous Hypercycles Guided by Dissipative Structural Properties
Takashi Ikegami, Takashi Hashimoto.
Replication and Diversity in Machine-Tape Coevolutionary Systems
Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Kunihiko Kaneko.
Igniting the Cycle of Creation - An Approach to Create Metabolism with Tile Automaton
Tsutomu Hoshino, Masahiro Tsuchida.
Manifestation of Neutral Genes in Evolving Robot Navigation
Christian V. Forst, Christian M. Reidys.
On Evolutionary Dynamics
Johan Chu, Christoph Adami.
Propagation of Information in Populations of Self-Replicating Code
Sobei H. Oda, Ken Miura, Kanji Ueda.
The Application of Cellular Automata to Network Externalities in Consumer's Theory: A Generalisation of Life Game
Edward A. Rietman.
Modelling Nanoscale Phenomena with Cellular Automata: Some Chemical-Physics Observations
Kenichi Morita, Katsunobu Imai.
A Simple Self-Reproducing Cellular Automaton with Shape-Encoding Mechanism
Hugues Bersini.
Frustration and Clustering in Biological Networks
J. N. Yoshimoto.
Dynamical Networks which Depend on Each Other
David Andre, Forrest H. Bennett III, John R. Koza.
Evolution of Intricate Long-Distance Communication Signals in Cellular Automata Using Genetic Programming
Yasuhiro Suzuki, Shusaku Tsumoto, Hiroshi Tanaka.
Analysis of Cycles in Symbolic Chemical System Based on Abstract Rewriting System on Multisets