Artificial Life: Selected Links & Literature

Collected by Kerstin Dautenhahn

This page is indended to be a first "contact point" for those with a general background in AI, Computer Science, Biology, (or related field), who are unfamiliar with Artificial Life but want to find out more about it. Selected resources and literature (introductory material and a few specialist books) are listed. This page is not meant to give a comprehensive overview or introduction to Artificial Life, such a role can be better fulfilled by other links listed below.

Please send an email to K.Dautenhahn@herts.ac.uk for comments or information on additional resources.

• C. Adami: Introduction to Artificial Life. Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 1998.
• R. C. Arkin: Behavior-Based Robotics, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, June 1998.
• W. Banzhaf, P. Nordin, R. Keller and F. Francone: Genetic Programming - An Introduction, Academic Press / Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA, 1998 (2nd corr. ed., 1999).
• R. K. Belew, M. Mitchell (Eds.): Adaptive Individuals in Evolving Populations, SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Volume XXVI, Addison-Wesley, 1996.
• M. A. Boden (ed.): The Philosophy of Artificial Life, Oxford University Press, 1996.
• J. T. Bonner: The Evolution of Complexity by Means of Natural Selection, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1988.
• V. Braitenberg: Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1984.
• L. W. Buss: The Evolution of Individuality, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1987.
• C. Emmeche: The Garden in the Machine: The Emerging Science of Artificial Life, Princeton University Press, 1994.
• J. M. Epstein and R. Axtell: Growing Artificial Societies. Social Science From the Bottom Up, MIT Press, 1996.
• G. W. Flake: The Computational Beauty of Nature. Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation,  A Bradford Book, MIT Press, 1998.
• D. B. Fogel: Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Press, Second Edition, 1999.
• J. H. Holland: Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems, A Bradford Book, MIT Press, 1992.
• S. A. Kauffman: The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution, Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1993.
• J. Koza: Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1992.
• C. Langton: Artificial Life: An Overview, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995.
• S. Levy: Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation, Random House, NY, 1992
• P. Maes (Ed.): Designing Autonomous Agents: Theory and Practice from Biology to Engineering and Back, A Bradford Book, MIT Press, 1990.
• J. Maynard Smith and E. Szathmáry: The Major Transitions in Evolution. W. H. Freeman, Oxford, New York, Heidelberg, 1995.
• M. Minsky: The Society of Mind, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1986.
• M. Mitchell: An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms, A Bradford Book, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996.
• C. L. Nehaniv (Ed.): Mathematical and Computational Biology: Computational Morphogenesis, Hierarchical Complexity, and Digital Evolution, Lectures on Mathematics in the Life Sciences Volume 26, American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 1999.
• J. von Neumann: Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and London, 1966.
• G. Paun (Ed.): Artificial Life: Grammatical Models, Black Sea University Press, Bucharest, Romania, 1995.
• P. Prusinkiewicz and A. Lindenmayer: The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1990.
• R. A. Raff: The Shape of Life: Genes, Development, and the Evolution of Animal Form, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1996.
• K. Sigmund: Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Oxford University Press, 1993.
• E. Schrödinger: What is Life?, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• E. Thro: Artificial Life Explorer's Kit, Sams Publishing, 1993.
• D'Arcy W. Thompson: On Growth and Form, Cambridge University Press, 1961.

• The Evolution of Language, April 3rd - 6th , 2000, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications Paris - France: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/
• Third European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP2000), Edinburgh, 15-16th April, 2000: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rmp/eebic/eurogp2000/
• EMCSR 2000, 15th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna, April 25 - 28, 2000: http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/
• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2000), July 8 - 12, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: http://www.genetic-algorithm.org/GECCO2000/gecco2000mainpage.htm
• 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2000), San Diego, USA, 16-19 July 2000: http://pcgipseca.cee.hw.ac.uk/cec2000/main.html
• The Seventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Artificial Life VII), Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA, 1-6 August 2000: http://alife7.alife.org/
• FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS, The Sixth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior  (SAB2000), 11 - 15 September 2000, Paris, France: http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/ANIMATLAB/SAB2000/
• Evolution of Sensors in Nature, Hardware and Simulation, Bird-of-a-feather Workshop at GECCO 2000, co-organisers: Daniel Polani, Thomas Uthmann, Kerstin Dautenhahn, submission deadline 1st March 2000.
• Evolution of Sensors in Nature, Hardware and Simulation, a Workshop at ALIFE VII, co-organisers: Daniel Polani, Thomas Uthmann, Kerstin Dautenhahn, August 2000, Oregon, USA, submission deadline 19th May 2000.

• Artificial Life, MIT Press, http://mitpress.mit.edu/
• Evolutionary Computation, MIT Press, http://mitpress.mit.edu/
• IEEE Transactions of Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Press, http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/tec.html
• Physica D (Nonlinear Phenomena), Elsevier Science, http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/5/0/5/7/1/4/505714.pub.htt
• Adaptive Behavior, International Society for Adaptive Behavior, Inc.,   http://www.adaptive-behavior.org/journal/
• Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, electronic, http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit/
• The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS),  electronic, http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/JASSS.html
• Evolution of Sensors in Nature, Hardware and Simulation, Special Issue of the International Journal ARTIFICIAL LIFE, edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn, Daniel Polani, Thomas Uthmann, Submissions due: 15 September 2000

• Newsgroup: comp.ai.alife
• Artificial Life Online: http://alife.santafe.edu/
• Artificial Life Bibliography of On-line Publications: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/ezequiel/alife-page/alife.html
• The Artificial Chemistry Page: http://ls11-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/achem/
• Zooland, the Artificial Life Resource: http://www.krl.caltech.edu/~brown/alife/zooland/
• Framsticks: Software for exploring 3D artificial evolution: http://www.frams.poznan.pl/
• Lparser: Software for exploring Lindenmayer Systems: http://www.xs4all.net/~ljlapre/lparser.htm
• Tierra (digital evolution software) homepage: http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/tierra/tierra.html
• The Swarm simulation system: http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/

• 4th German Workshop on Artificial Life (GWAL 2000), April 5-7, 2000, Universität Bayreuth, Wissenschaftszentrum Thurnauin: http://www.bitoek.uni-bayreuth.de/gwal2000/
• Workshop SOAVE 2000, Selbstorganisation von adaptivem Verhalten, 4-6  October 2000, Ilmenau, http://cortex.informatik.tu-ilmenau.de/~soave2k/
• Arbeitskreises 'Artificial Life' im GI Fachbereich 1 - Künstliche Intelligenz: Sprecher: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Banzhaf (banzhaf@cs.uni-dortmund.de). Nähere Informationen zum Arbeitskreis und Artificial Life Aktivitäten innerhalb und außerhalb Deutschlands: http://ls11-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/alife/GI/

• Socially Intelligent Agents
• Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE)

Updated on 3rd May 2000. Please send comments and additions to K.Dautenhahn@herts.ac.uk