Open problems in artificial life

Artificial Life

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 363-376

  Bedau, Mark A ^a   McCaskill, John S ^b   Packard, Norman H ^c   Rasmussen, Steen ^d   Adami, Chris ^e   Green, David G ^f   Ikegami, Takashi ^g   Kaneko, Kunihiko ^g   Ray, Thomas S ^h  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

^b German Nat Res Center for Inf Technol   (Germany)

^c Prediction Company   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial chemistry; Artificial life; Astrobiology; Autopoeisis; Biosystems; Digital life; Dynamical hierarchies; Ecosystems; Emergence; Evolution; Evolutionary learning; Evolvable hardware; Origin of life; Selection; Self organization; Self replication; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHICS; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHICS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LIFE;

EID: 0034280296     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/106454600300103683     Document Type: Article

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