Biological Systems Complexity And Artificial Life

Author : Jacques Ricard
Publisher : Bentham Science Publishers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781608058129

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Biological Systems: Complexity and Artificial Life by Jacques Ricard Pdf

The exponential increase in computing power in the late twentieth century has allowed researchers to gather, process and analyze large volumes of information and construct rational paradigms of systems. Life sciences are no exception and computing advances have led to the birth of fields such as functional genomics and bioinformatics and facilitated an expansion of our understanding of biological systems. Biological Systems: Complexity and Artificial Life is an essential primer on systems biology for biologists and researchers having a multidisciplinary background. The volume covers a variety of theoretical models explaining biological processes. The book starts with an introductory chapter on the classical molecular biology paradigm and progresses towards concepts related to enzyme kinetics, non equilibrium dynamics, cellular thermodynamics, molecular motion in cells and more. The book concludes with a philosophical note on the concept of the biological system.

Author : Christopher G. Langton,Charles Taylor,J. Doyne Farmer,Steen Rasmussen
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0201525712

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Artificial Life II by Christopher G. Langton,Charles Taylor,J. Doyne Farmer,Steen Rasmussen Pdf

Artificial life is a new field of scientific inquiry that studies biology by attempting to synthesize such biological phenomena as life, evolution, and ecological dynamics within computers and other "artificial" media. In addition to uncovering new ways to study life as we know it, a life extends research to the larger domain of life as it could be, whatever it might be made of and wherever it might be found in the universe.This proceedings volume, based on the second artificial life workshop held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1990, reflects the evolution and horizons of this rich field of study, and builds on the proceedings of the seminal first workshop, held at Los Alamos in 1987 (also available from Addison Wesley). This compendium includes more than 30 papers spanning the spectrum of a-life research, from studies of the origin of life to models of complex systems.

Author : Christopher G. Langton,Katsunori Shimohara
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262621118

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Artificial Life V by Christopher G. Langton,Katsunori Shimohara Pdf

In addition to presenting the latest work in the field, Artificial Life V includes a retrospective and prospective look at both artificial and natural life with the aim of refining the methods and approaches discovered so far into viable, practical tools for the pursuit of science and engineering goals. May 16-18, 1996 · Nara, Japan Despite all the successes in computer engineering, adaptive computation, bottom-up AI, and robotics, Artificial Life must not become simply a one-way bridge, borrowing biological principles to enhance our engineering efforts in the construction of life-as-it-could-be. We must ensure that we give back to biology in kind, by developing tools and methods that will be of real value in the effort to understand life-as-it-is. Artificial Life V marks a decade since Christopher Langton organized the first workshop on artificial life--a decade characterized by the exploration of new possibilities and techniques as researchers have sought to understand, through synthetic experiments, the organizing principles underlying the dynamics (usually the nonlinear dynamics) of living systems. In addition to presenting the latest work in the field, Artificial Life V includes a retrospective and prospective look at both artificial and natural life with the aim of refining the methods and approaches discovered so far into viable, practical tools for the pursuit of science and engineering goals. Complex Adaptive Systems series

Author : Christopher Langton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429688997

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Artificial Life by Christopher Langton Pdf

"In September 1987, the first workshop on Artificial Life was held at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Jointly sponsored by the Center for Nonlinear Studies, the Santa Fe Institute, and Apple Computer Inc, the workshop brought together 160 computer scientists, biologists, physicists, anthropologists, and other assorted ""-ists,"" all of whom shared a common interest in the simulation and synthesis of living systems. During five intense days, we saw a wide variety of models of living systems, including mathematical models for the origin of life, self-reproducing automata, computer programs using the mechanisms of Darwinian evolution to produce co-adapted ecosystems, simulations of flocking birds and schooling fish, the growth and development of artificial plants, and much, much more The workshop itself grew out of my frustration with the fragmented nature of the literature on biological modeling and simulation. For years I had prowled around libraries, shifted through computer-search results, and haunted bookstores, trying to get an overview of a field which I sensed existed but which did not seem to have any coherence or unity. Instead, I literally kept stumbling over interesting work almost by accident, often published in obscure journals if published at all."

Author : Christopher G. Langton
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262621126

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Artificial Life by Christopher G. Langton Pdf

This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of the groundbreaking journal Artificial Life.

Author : Jordan B. Pollack
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biological systems
ISBN : 0262661837

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Artificial Life IX by Jordan B. Pollack Pdf

Proceedings from the ninth International Conference on Artificial Life; papers by scientists of many disciplines focusing on the principles of organization and applications of complex, life-like systems. Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary effort to investigate the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of life-like processes. The young field brings a powerful set of tools to the study of how high-level behavior can arise in systems governed by simple rules of interaction. Some of the fundamental questions include: What are the principles of evolution, learning, and growth that can be understood well enough to simulate as an information process? Can robots be built faster and more cheaply by mimicking biology than by the product design process used for automobiles and airplanes? How can we unify theories from dynamical systems, game theory, evolution, computing, geophysics, and cognition? The field has contributed fundamentally to our understanding of life itself through computer models, and has led to novel solutions to complex real-world problems across high technology and human society. This elite biennial meeting has grown from a small workshop in Santa Fe to a major international conference. This ninth volume of the proceedings of the international A-life conference reflects the growing quality and impact of this interdisciplinary scientific community.

Author : Russell K. Standish,Mark Bedau,Hussein A. Abbass
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262692813

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Artificial Life 8 by Russell K. Standish,Mark Bedau,Hussein A. Abbass Pdf

How high-level behaviors arise from low-level rules, and how understanding this relationship can suggest novel solutions to complex real-world problems such as disease prevention, stock-market prediction, and data mining on the Internet. The term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess some of the essential properties of life. This interdisciplinary field includes biologists, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, geneticists, and others. Artificial life may be viewed as an attempt to understand high-level behavior from low-level rules -- for example, how the simple interactions between ants and their environment lead to complex trail-following behavior. An understanding of such relationships in particular systems can suggest novel solutions to complex real-world problems such as disease prevention, stock-market prediction, and data mining on the Internet. Since their inception in 1987, the Artificial Life meetings have grown from small workshops to truly international conferences, reflecting the field's increasing appeal to researchers in all areas of science.

Author : Christoph Adami
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262510995

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Artificial Life VI by Christoph Adami Pdf

Since their inception in 1987, the Artificial Life meetings have grown from small workshops to truly international conferences, reflecting the fields increasing appeal to researchers in all areas of science.

Author : Rodney Allen Brooks,Pattie Maes
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262521903

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Artificial Life IV by Rodney Allen Brooks,Pattie Maes Pdf

This book brings together contributions to the Fourth Artificial Life Workshop, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the summer of 1994.

Author : Christopher G. Langton
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0201093561

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Artificial Life by Christopher G. Langton Pdf

Artificial Life is the study of synthetic systems that exhibit behaviors characteristics of natural living systems. It complements the traditional biological sciences concerned with the analysis of living organisms by attempting to synthesize lifelike behaviors within computers and other artificial media. By extending the empirical foundation upon which biology is based beyond the carbon-chain of life that has evolved on Earth, Artificial Life can contribute to theoretical biology by locating ”life as we know it” within the larger picture of ”life as it could be.”This book——The Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop On The Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems—introduces the field of Artificial Life, reviews its biological roots, discusses its goals and methodological approaches, and gives examples of modeling technologies and their application to the simulation of specific biological phenomena. It draws comparisons with similar ”bottom up” approaches to the understanding of complex systems as studied in fields such as Physics, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence. The book also contains an extensive annotated bibliography of more than 500 citations of work relevant to the field of Artificial Life.

Author : John H. Holland
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992-04-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262581116

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Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems by John H. Holland Pdf

Genetic algorithms are playing an increasingly important role in studies of complex adaptive systems, ranging from adaptive agents in economic theory to the use of machine learning techniques in the design of complex devices such as aircraft turbines and integrated circuits. Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems is the book that initiated this field of study, presenting the theoretical foundations and exploring applications. In its most familiar form, adaptation is a biological process, whereby organisms evolve by rearranging genetic material to survive in environments confronting them. In this now classic work, Holland presents a mathematical model that allows for the nonlinearity of such complex interactions. He demonstrates the model's universality by applying it to economics, physiological psychology, game theory, and artificial intelligence and then outlines the way in which this approach modifies the traditional views of mathematical genetics. Initially applying his concepts to simply defined artificial systems with limited numbers of parameters, Holland goes on to explore their use in the study of a wide range of complex, naturally occuring processes, concentrating on systems having multiple factors that interact in nonlinear ways. Along the way he accounts for major effects of coadaptation and coevolution: the emergence of building blocks, or schemata, that are recombined and passed on to succeeding generations to provide, innovations and improvements.

Author : Stefano Cagnoni,Marco Mirolli,Marco Villani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642375774

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Evolution, Complexity and Artificial Life by Stefano Cagnoni,Marco Mirolli,Marco Villani Pdf

Evolution and complexity characterize both biological and artificial life – by direct modeling of biological processes and the creation of populations of interacting entities from which complex behaviors can emerge and evolve. This edited book includes invited chapters from leading scientists in the fields of artificial life, complex systems, and evolutionary computing. The contributions identify both fundamental theoretical issues and state-of-the-art real-world applications. The book is intended for researchers and graduate students in the related domains.

Author : Mark A. Bedau,John S. McCaskill,Norman H. Packard,Steen Rasmussen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 026252290X

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Artificial Life VII by Mark A. Bedau,John S. McCaskill,Norman H. Packard,Steen Rasmussen Pdf

The term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess some of the essential properties of life. This interdisciplinary field includes biologists, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, geneticists, and others. Artificial life may be viewed as an attempt to understand high-level behavior from low-level rules—for example, how the simple interactions between ants and their environment lead to complex trail-following behavior. An understanding of such relationships in particular systems can suggest novel solutions to complex real-world problems such as disease prevention, stock-market prediction, and data mining on the Internet. Since their inception in 1987, the Artificial Life meetings have grown from small workshops to truly international conferences, reflecting the field's increasing appeal to researchers in all areas of science.

Author : Phil Husbands,Inman Harvey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262581574

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Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life by Phil Husbands,Inman Harvey Pdf

Topics include self-organization, the origins of life, natural selection, evolutionary computation, neural networks, communication, artificial worlds, software agents, philosophical issues in artificial life, ethical problems, and learning and development. Researchers in artificial life attempt to use the physical representation of lifelike phenomena to understand the organizational principles underlying the dynamics of living systems. The goal of the 1997 European Conference on Artificial Life is to provoke new understandings of the relationships between the natural and the artificial. Topics include self-organization, the origins of life, natural selection, evolutionary computation, neural networks, communication, artificial worlds, software agents, philosophical issues in artificial life, ethical problems, and learning and development.

Author : Harald Schaub,Frank Detje,Ulrike Brüggermann
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 389838053X

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The Logic of Artificial Life by Harald Schaub,Frank Detje,Ulrike Brüggermann Pdf