A new area of research in which a "life-form" is created within the computer and is used to test evolutionary theories or theories of life-form behavior.
The reproduction of biological processes or organisms and their behavior by means of artificial components (programs) in computer systems, in order to draw conclusions about reality.
A sequence of outputs produced from a computer program that are presented with an initial configuration of points (the "organism") and a set of rules (the "genetic code") to generate subsequent generations of the organism. Artificial life is modeled on evolution by natural selection. Certain initial configurations and rules can produce visually pleasing images. This is thus one technique for generating computer art.
new discipline that studies "natural" life by attempting to recreate biological phenomena from scratch within computers and other "artificial" media. alife complements the traditional analytic approach of traditional biology with a synthetic approach in which, rather than studying biological phenomena by taking apart living organisms to see how they work, one attempts to put together systems that behave like living organisms.
This is not a concept that is yet ready to be rigorously defined. The most concise, but still far from rigorous definition, is simply: life as synthesized by man rather than by nature. One of the basic tenets of this still-infant field is the belief that life is not unique to its biological (and, as yet, only known) form, but is a more general property of the organization of matter. Artificial life explores life as it could be as opposed to life as we know it to be.
n. The study of computer systems that simulate some aspects of the behavior of living organisms. Artificial life includes systems in which programs intended to perform some particular task compete for survival and reproduction based on their performance; the offspring can combine pieces of code and undergo random variations, and the programs so modified compete in turn, until an optimal solution is found.
This discipline involves the study of man-made systems that exhibit the behavior characteristics of living systems.
A field of AI research that studies the adaptive control systems of insects and reproduces them in robotic insectoids.
The study of biological processes within the confines of a computer.
Artificial Life, (commonly Alife or alife) is a field of study and art form that examines systems related to life, its processes and its evolution through simulations using computer models, robotics, and biochemistry (called "soft", "hard", and "wet" approaches respectively). Artificial life compliments traditional Biology by trying to recreate biological phenomena rather than take them apart. Because of its predominance within the field, the term "Artificial Life" is often used to specifically refer to soft alife.
