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ALIFE
2002
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The View From Elsewhere: Perspectives on ALife Modeling
Many artificial life researchers stress the interdisciplinary character of the field. Against such a backdrop, this report reviews and discusses artificial life, as it is depicted ...
Michael Wheeler, Seth Bullock, Ezequiel A. Di Paol...
ALIFE
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Bioinspired Engineering of Exploration Systems for NASA and DoD
A new approach called bioinspired engineering of exploration systems (BEES) and its value for solving pressing NASA and DoD needs are described. Insects (for example honeybees and ...
Sarita Thakoor, Javaan S. Chahl, Mandyam V. Sriniv...
ALIFE
2002
13 years 4 months ago
An Interactive Self-Replicator Implemented in Hardware
Self-replicating loops presented to date are essentially worlds unto themselves, inaccessible to the observer once the replication process is launched. In this article we present t...
André Stauffer, Moshe Sipper
ALIFE
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Ant Colony Optimization and Stochastic Gradient Descent
In this paper, we study the relationship between the two techniques known as ant colony optimization (aco) and stochastic gradient descent. More precisely, we show that some empir...
Nicolas Meuleau, Marco Dorigo
ALIFE
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Evolvable Self-Replicating Molecules in an Artificial Chemistry
This paper gives details of Squirm3, a new artificial environment based on a simple physics and chemistry that supports self-replicating molecules somewhat similar to DNA. The sel...
Tim J. Hutton
ALIFE
2002
13 years 4 months ago
"Artificial Societies" and the Social Sciences
nized according to abstract classificatory principles..."5 Adorno's point was that 1 Adorno, T.W., Dahrendorf, R., Pilot, H., Albert, H., Habermas, J. and Popper, K.:The ...
J. Stephen Lansing
ALIFE
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Artificial Life and the Chinese Room Argument
: We use the term 'Strong Artificial Life' to refer to the thesis that a sufficiently sophisticated computer simulation of a life-form is a life-form in its own right. Ca...
David Anderson, B. Jack Copeland