Artificial Life Models in Software [electronic resource] /
Komosinski, Maciej.editor.
Adamatzky, Andrew.editor.
Artificial Life Models in Software provides an introduction and guide to modern software tools for modeling and simulating life-like phenomena, written by those who personally design and develop 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 software packages that are actively developed and supported by experts in artificial life and software design. The carefully selected topics include: • simulation and evolution of real and artificial life forms, • natural and artificial morphogenesis, • self-organization, • models of communication and social behaviors, • emergent collective behaviors and swarm intelligence, • agent-based simulations, • autonomous and evolutionary robotics, • adaptive, complex and biologically inspired ecosystems, • artificial chemistries, • creative computer art. The models of life presented here are essential components in undergraduate and post-graduate courses in complex adaptive systems, multi-agent systems, collective robotics and nature-inspired computing. Readers interested in artificial life, evolutionary biology, simulation, cybernetics, computer graphics and animation, neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy will find this monograph a valuable guide and an excellent resource for supplementary reading.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Virtual Environments -- Avida -- Foundations of and Recent Advances in Artificial Life Modeling with Repast 3 and Repast Simphony -- Sodarace -- 3D Multi-Agent Simulations in the breve Simulation Environment -- Framsticks -- Lattice Worlds -- StarLogo TNG -- From Artificial Life to In Silico Medicine -- Discrete Dynamics Lab -- EINSTein -- Artificial Chemistries -- From Artificial Chemistries to Systems Biology -- Spatially Resolved Artificial Chemistry -- Artificial Life Arts -- Simulated Breeding -- The Evolution of Sonic Ecosystems -- Enriching Aesthetics with Artificial Life.
Artificial Life Models in Software provides an introduction and guide to modern software tools for modeling and simulating life-like phenomena, written by those who personally design and develop 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 software packages that are actively developed and supported by experts in artificial life and software design. The carefully selected topics include: • simulation and evolution of real and artificial life forms, • natural and artificial morphogenesis, • self-organization, • models of communication and social behaviors, • emergent collective behaviors and swarm intelligence, • agent-based simulations, • autonomous and evolutionary robotics, • adaptive, complex and biologically inspired ecosystems, • artificial chemistries, • creative computer art. The models of life presented here are essential components in undergraduate and post-graduate courses in complex adaptive systems, multi-agent systems, collective robotics and nature-inspired computing. Readers interested in artificial life, evolutionary biology, simulation, cybernetics, computer graphics and animation, neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy will find this monograph a valuable guide and an excellent resource for supplementary reading.
Computer simulation.
Artificial intelligence.
Optical data processing.
Application software.
User interfaces (Computer systems).
Software engineering.
Simulation and Modeling.
Artificial Intelligence.
Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.
Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.
Software Engineering.