The Artificial Life Programming Paradigm

The Artificial Life Programming Paradigm

Artificial Life
- Here is one netter's list of all famous Artificial Life simulation tools and applications:
  - Avida
  - DALiWorld
  - ECHO
  - Evo
  - Framsticks
  - MAML
  - Physis
  - StarLogo
  - Swarm
  - Tierra
- Welcome to Zooland The Artificial Life Resource, maintained by Jörg Heitkötter, known worldwide by his login ID, "joke". See also the downloads page
- The Genesis distributed alife evolution home page by David Stern, with a neat java stand alone applet and a way to join in distributed cooperative evolution of the little bugs that are the evolvees, similar in concept to seti@home.
- Tom Ray, inventor of Tierra, has a cute daughter visible on his home page in Japan, but, hey, he's all over the world, or at least the Japan, Oklahoma, and Costa Rica parts. And how many other folks can get Freeman Dyson to take a picture of their kid?
- Artificial Life Research Zone Peter Harrison's take on Alife. Includes the game Colony on Grebelis, two version of related non-game Evolution of Colony, and Gene Generator, a DNA to phenotype translator, plus the tutorial Parallel System Modeling.
- DNA to cells Alife simulation
- alife hardware links
- Keith Wiley has done lots of Alife Simulations.
- Researcher Studying Life and Alife morphology, Dr. Diego Rasskin-Gutman, lots of great info and links
- Lotus Artificial Life - HAL
- International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL) home page, Artificial Life Online
  
  This is the successor to the renowned ALife pages at the Santa Fe Institute, alife.SantaFe.edu, which no longer exist.
- ftp to Jan Kim's dissertation on Alife and L-Systems
- Jan Kim's old website with many good alife links, harvest soon
- Peter Harrison's alife pages
- The people page at Biotia.org, a great way to find alife researchers and their projects.
- ATOMS - LowLife one of Tim Tyler's wonders.
- generation5.org - Book Reviews
- Notting Hill Publishing - Cybertation Download software, breed strange graphical creatures, trade across the web.
- Torsten Reil's Publications
- eSoup
- Jeffrey Ventrella Author of Darwin's Pond and Gene Pool, great Alife demos linked here.
- Biota.org - Karl Sims' Evolving Virtual Block Creatures
- The Perfect Swarm | Computerworld News & Features Story
- Bitozoa and Bitozoa2 are both worth downloading for MS-Windows systems. The first one is an herbivores versus plants evolution simulation with simple visual interface (dots, mostly) but great stuff happening behind it: neural nets, evolution, lots of parameters with which to play, blind or sighted organisms, a history graph, and so forth. The second one adds carnivores to the mix, creating a coevolution system that can be run sometimes for weeks with new behaviors evolving. I like to try both with slower mutation and more complex neural networks and see what happens. Turning off asexual reproduction will either kill off a population in the worst case, or help much more interesting behavior evolve in the best case.
- Framsticks - Artificial life - evolution simulation. Nice, beautiful really, but shareware for something so CPU hungry that it barely functions on a modern desktop workstation?
- Framsticks program -- Index of /common/dl.
- Cris Moore's Homepage
- NecroBones Artificial Life Experiments
- Necrobones' bugfest version 1.13 by Ed "Bones" T. Toton III. Now if I only knew where the newer version was hiding.
- HELIX - Digital Life
- Demetri Terzopoulos - Home Page. Computer graphics, imaging, and vision researcher who developed a very full implementation of Alife fishes.
- 1997 Santa Fe Institute Working Papers Artificial Life and Real Life too.
- SAB90-Text Animals to Animats . This is an essential source document on artificial life, proceedings of a first conference that is still ongoing as a series a decade later, but it is out of print, only to be found via used book dealers.
- Mind.Forth Alife AI since January 2000. This is a fairly controversial effort, mainly because most folks think the author doesn't have the needed skill, but talks a good story. We'll see.
- Alife Guide - Created by Stewart Dean.
- Coordination without Communication
- Biology of Small Populations: A Research Training Grant. May or may not end up being ALIFE research, but it was interesting to read.
- ANTS' 2000 Submission
- ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION
- BEHAVIOR OF REAL ANTS
- Complexity-Seeking Ants A more complex variant on the emergent behavior embodied in the StarLogo demo TERMiTES. Sadly, it has suffered bit rot, and all the figures are missing, and it also lacks a demo, which a version written in the age of Java would have. A good read, but quite old.
- The Complexity and Artificial Life Research Concept, CALResCo's educational site
- Ariel Dolan, Artificial Life on the Web, Artificial Life and Other Experiments, Java Alife Experiments, and Artist 3D Dolls; Ariel Dolan's 3D collage survivers of Scud Missile impact, photos only.
- Alife Database Weblication by Ariel Dolan
- Ecolab and miniTierra by Dr. Russell Standish
- What's New at CALResCo in Complexity Theory & Artificial Life
- Swarm
- Life Drop
- Lotus Artificial Life - Crystal 2D - template-based self replication.
- Lotus Artificial Life - Crystal 1D - template-based self replication
- Digital Biology
- sodaplay Seemingly alive, and under your control, stick figures with attitude.
- Vie Artificielle
Artificial Societies
- Individual-Based Models
- Computer simulation of societies: Home Page
- The free online Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
- PSCS at IP-CNR Project for the Simulation of Social Behaviour
- Special Interest Group on Agent Based Social Simulation

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was last updated
20060527.