Artificial Ecologies
Like evolution, ecology is a central force within living and life-like systems. It stands to reason, then, that artificial ecologies come up in many different areas of ALife. For a…
The Encyclopedia of Artificial Life
Sub-fields of Artificial Life
Artificial Life
What is it? Artificial Life (ALife, a-life, Alife) is a very broad field that intersects with many other fields, including biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, art, philosophy, astronomy, and more.…
Avida
The Avida Digital Evolution Platform is an open-source artificial life system that has been used to conduct a wide range of studies on evolutionary dynamics . In Avida, self-replicating computer…
Digital Evolution
Overview https://youtu.be/2kiKt71dN8U Digital evolution systems are a class of Artificial Life systems in which populations of computational agents undergo evolution . These systems generally encode the three ingredients for evolution…
Evolutionary Substrate
An evolutionary substrate is the genetic material on which evolution is acting. For instance, in biological evolution, the substrate is DNA. In artificial life systems, it could be anything from…