Artificial Life Models in Software
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Artificial Life Models in Software presents software tools, environments and realities dealing with creation, imitation and analysis of artefactual, virtual and living forms, written by those who personally design and produce software, hardware and art installations in artificial life, simulated complex systems and virtual worlds.
This timely volume offers a nearly exhaustive overview and original analysis of major non-profit artificial life software packages. The carefully selected topics include:
· simulation of real and imaginary life forms and their evolution
· self-organization
· emergent behaviours
· swarm intelligence
· evolutionary robotics
· agent-based simulations
· adaptive, complex and biologically inspired ecosystems
· creative computer art
There has long been a need within the academic and research community for an informal introduction and guidance to modern software tools for modelling and simulation of life-like phenomena – Artificial Life Models in Software fills this gap and provides invaluable information to both professional and amateur readers, offering detailed reviews of contemporary software for artificial life.
Arti?cial life is an interdisciplinary ?eld of science, hosting experts from c- puter science, biology, physics, chemistry, and mathematics, as well as phi- sophers and artists. It focuses on studying the phenomena of life on all levels of complexity and organization — molecular, cellular, organismic, and p- ulation. These studies not only employ conventional computers (using both software and hardware), but also take place in wetware, using techniques of biochemical laboratory. Arti?cial life research is not limited to life forms - isting on the Earth. It rather attempts to study the general principles of life which are common to all instances of life, both already recognized and yet unknown. This book is dedicated to the software medium, the most popular and widely employed in the arti?cial life research. The software medium o?ers almost unlimited abilities for experiments, which are cheap, easily arranged, and modi?ed. Additionally, such experiments canbe repeated under the same conditions, and large amounts of data (unavailable in biological studies) can be collectedfor analysis.To beginexperimentation,a modelof lifeis required. Such models are built in software for all organizational levels of life. Most of the models described in this book are very general and therefore allow for a wide range of experiments.
No other book offers detailed reviews of contemporary software for artificial life – particularly there are no texts where the software developers discuss their creations Authored by developers rather than users
Artificial Life Models on Software introduces software tools, environments and realities dealing with creation, imitation and analysis of artefactual, virtual and living forms. This book is unique because it is written not simply by academics but by those who personally design and produce software, hardware and art installations in artificial life, simulated complex systems and virtual reality. This timely volume presents a nearly exhaustive overview and original analysis of non-profit software packages of simulated and would-be worlds. Readers from various backgrounds will certainly enjoy this treatise of carefully selected topics, including simulation of real and imaginary life forms, cellular automata, complex systems, emergent behaviour, computational societies and evolving forms.
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Andrew Adamatzky
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From the reviews:
"Artificial Life Models in software is a unique book that showcases a variety of freely available software for artificial life simulations. … It will be valuable for many related to artificial life, especially as an introductory reading for students … . It will also be a nice informative reference for professional researchers and educators. … I would like to recommend Artificial life models in software to whoever is interested in artificial life … ." (Hiroki Sayama, Artificial Life, Issue 13, 2007)
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