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ALIFE
1998
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The Perfect C. elegans Project: An Initial Report
The soil nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans (C. elegans) is the most investigated of all multi-cellular organisms. Since the proposal to use it as a model organism, a series of resea...
Hiroaki Kitano, Shugo Hamahashi, Sean Luke
ALIFE
1998
13 years 4 months ago
Evolution of Linguistic Diversity in a Simple Communication System
This article reports on the current state of our efforts to shed light on the origin and evolution of linguistic diversity using synthetic modeling and arti cial life es. We constr...
Takaya Arita, Yuhji Koyama
ALIFE
2007
13 years 4 months ago
Synchronization Phenomena in Surface-Reaction Models of Protocells
A class of generic models of protocells is introduced, which are inspired by the “Los Alamos bug” is but which, due to their abstraction level, can be applied to a wider set o...
Roberto Serra, Timoteo Carletti, Irene Poli
ALIFE
2007
13 years 4 months ago
Evolution of Birdsong Syntax by Interjection Communication
Animals use diverse forms of communication, from sound signals to body postures. Recent ethological studies have reported a unique syntactic communication of a songbird, the Bengal...
Kazutoshi Sasahara, Takashi Ikegami
ALIFE
2007
13 years 4 months ago
"Life Is a Verb": Inflections of Artificial Life in Cultural Context
This review essay surveys recent literature in the history of science, literary theory, anthropology, and art criticism dedicated to exploring how the artificial life enterprise ha...
Stefan Helmreich
ALIFE
2007
13 years 4 months ago
Life Cycle of a Minimal Protocell - A Dissipative Particle Dynamics Study
Cross-reactions and other systematic difficulties generated by the coupling of functional chemical subsystems pose the largest challenge for assembling a viable protocell in the la...
Harold Fellermann, Steen Rasmussen, Hans-Joachim Z...
ALIFE
2007
13 years 4 months ago
Computational Realizations of Living Systems
Robert Rosen’s central theorem states that organisms are fundamentally different to machines, mainly because they are ‘‘closed with respect to effcient causation.’’ The p...
Dominique Chu, Weng Kin Ho