Introduction to Artificial Life

Name: Introduction to Artificial Life
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ISBN: 9780387946467

ISBN-10: 0387946462

ISBN-13: 9780387946467

Edition: 1999

Authors: Christoph Adami

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Life is so diverse and complex that is seems impossible to extract the general principles governing each individual living system. Fortunately, however, the unrelenting growth of the power of modern computers has opened up entirely unexpected avenues of opportunity for us in exploring the construction of artificial living systems. This has created the possibility to design and conduct dedicated experiments with these systems, and has generated interest in the idea of formulating a set of "general principles of the living state" which are quite independent of a particular implementation. Such a "theory of living systems" might equally well-predict the outcome of experiments performed on the…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 7/30/1999
Binding: Mixed Media
Pages: 374
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Preface


Contents of CD-ROM



Flavors of Artificial Life



Artificial Chemistry and Self-Replicating Code



Introduction to Information Theory



Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics



Complexity of Simple Living Systems



Self-Organization to Criticality



Percolation



Fitness Landscapes



Experiments with avida



Propagation of Information



Adaptive Learning at the Error Threshold



The avida User's Manual


References


Index