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What is Artificial Life? popular
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Life
Artificial life (commonly Alife or alife) is a field of study and an associated art form which examine systems related to life, its processes, and its evolution through simulations using computer models, robotics, and biochemistry. The discipline was named by Christopher Langton, an American computer scientist, in 1986. There are three main kinds of alife, named for their approaches: soft, from software; hard, from hardware; and wet, from biochemistry. Artificial life imitates traditional biology by trying to recreate biological phenomena. The term "artificial life" is often used to specifically refer to soft alife.
Artificial life studies the logic of living systems in artificial environments. The goal is to study the phenomena of living systems in order to come to an understanding of the complex information processing that defines such systems.
Also sometimes included in the umbrella term Artificial Life are agent based systems which are used to study the emergent properties of societies of agents.
While artificial life is, by definition, alive, artificial life is generally referred to as being confined to a digital environment and existence.
Ms Guidance on Artificial Life popular
http://www.t0.or.at/msguide/ai/alife.htm
Links and resources.
Lotus Artificial Life popular
Contains various java applications related to artificial life.
ISAAC and EINSTein popular
An AL approach to land warfare. Windows beta software, images and project documentation.
International Society of Artificial Life popular
Portal with information on conferences, publications, and activities of the society.
International Society for Adaptive Behavior popular
An international scientific society devoted to education and furthering research on adaptive behavior in animals, animats, software agents, and robots.
glAnts popular
http://glants.sourceforge.net/
A sourceforge project for a combination game and simulation that allows interaction with simple artificial ants.
Geb - Evolving AI-Life popular
http://www.channon.net/alastair/
Alastair Channon's artificial life project.
Digital Biology popular
http://www.digitalbiology.com/
Digital Biology was established in order to conduct research into, and develop technology based on, artificial life.
comp.ai.alife Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) popular
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/alife/
comp.ai.alife Frequently Asked Questions
CALT Encyclopedia -- Artificial Life popular
http://www.calt.insead.edu/Encyclopedia/?artificial+life
A collection of resources related to artificial life. Includes a section for social sciences (social micro-simulation)
CALresCo - Complexity and Alife Research and information popular
CALResCo promotes free world-wide education about Complex Systems
Boids: A Distributed Behavioral Model popular
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
Simulations of group motion in flocks, herds, and schools, along with related phenomena. Includes many links to related applications and research, e.g. Artificial Life.
Biota.org popular
A group project exploring living 3D aesthetic worlds.
Artificial Life Links popular
http://www.alcyone.com/max/links/alife.html
Erik Max Francis' categorized list of links to sites regarding artificial life and related fields.
Artificial Life by Jpr popular
Some of the main alife topics illustrated by applets or applications. A link section is also available.
Artificial Life and Other Experiments popular
Artificial life and genetic algorithm experiments in java and tcl with free source code; 3D doll pictures and web design experiments.
Artificial Intelligence - Artificial Life popular
Links to artificial life/intelligence projects, with a collection of links including swarming Java applets.
Aritificial Life FAQ popular
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/comp/comp.ai.alife.html
From the newsgroup comp.ai.alife.
alife.net popular
Promotes the artificial life community by offering news, discussions, polls, software. Free registration.
Alife Games popular
http://alifegames.sourceforge.net/
Developer of artificial life worlds as free software with open source code, with the eventual aim of creating true artificial intelligence. Applications include a dungeon generator written in C++, and a shooter game for Windows.
A-life Links popular
http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/alife.html
A list of alife resources compiled by Lachlan Cranswick.