TELOS, The Electronic Library of Science / Introduction to Artificial Life, w. CD-ROM
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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...
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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.
Life is so diverse and complex that is seems impossible to extract the general principles governing each individual living system. Fortunately, however, the unrelenting growth of the power of modern computers has opened up entirely unexpected avenues of opportunity for us in exploring the construction of artificial living systems. This has created the possibility to design and conduct dedicated experiments with these systems, and has generated interest in the idea of formulating a set of "general principles of the living state" which are quite independent of a particular implementation. Such a "theory of living systems" might equally well-predict the outcome of experiments performed on the protean living system which gave rise to life on earth, e.g., and RNA world, and those worlds in which information is coded in binary strings compiled to programs that have the ability to self-replicate: thus and instance of "Artificial Life." This book and CD-ROM have been developed in a lab-oriented course taught at Cal Tech in 1995 and 1996, and simultaneously augmented by Artificial Life research conducted there. The courses have been attended by an interdisciplinary group of students from backgrounds in physics, computer science, and the computational neural sciences. Pre- requisite understanding of statistical physics and thermodynamics, basic biology, as well as familiarity with computer architectures and scientific computing techniques are assumed. This project is an attempt to bring together the necessary theoretical groundwork for understanding the dynamics of systems of self-replicating information, as well as the result from initial experiments carried out with artificial living systems based on this paradigm.
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Summary: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
Autoren-Porträt von Christoph Adami
For students, researchers and professional scientist eager to gain insight into the emerging frontiers of Artifical Life, Chris Adami's work provides the basic underpinnings for properly understanding this interdisciplinary research area. The CD-ROM accompanying the book invites readers to actively experience artificial evolution in "real time" by using a proprietary simulation software program, AVIDA, which is contained on the CD.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Christoph Adami
- XVIII, 376 Seiten, Maße: 25,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 0387946462
- ISBN-13: 9780387946467
Sprache:
Englisch
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