Introduction to Artificial Life
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 1999
Book
Mixed media product
XVIII, 376 pages
978-0-387-94646-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book and CD-ROM package has been developed in a lab-oriented course taught at Cal Tech in 1995 and 1996, and simultaneously augmented by artificial life research conducted there. These courses were attended by an interdisciplinary group of students from physics, computer science, and the computational neural sciences. The authors assume a pre-requisite understanding of statistical physics and thermodynamics, basic biology, as well as familiarity with computer architectures and scientific computing techniques. This project brings together the necessary theoretical groundwork for understanding the dynamics of systems of self-replicating information, as well as the results of initial experiments carried out with artificial living systems based on this paradigm.
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Edition
1., st ed. 1998. Corr. 2nd printing 1999
Language
English
Place of publication
New York, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Research
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
XVIII, 376 p. With CD-ROM., 9 s/w Tabellen
103 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
862 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-387-94646-7 (9780387946467)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4612-1650-6
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Christoph Adami
Introduction to Artificial Life
Book
04/2013
Springer
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Content
Preface.- Contents of the 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.- Appendix A: The avida User's Manual.- References.- Index.