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Simulations: Complexity, Artificial Life and Artificial Culture

MapNet on Artificial Life
Complexity and Artificial Life Research Concept

Introductions

Turbulent Mirror : An Illustrated Guide to Chaos, Theory and the Science of Wholeness by John Briggs, F. David Peat, David Peat. amazon.com

Artificial Life : A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology by Steven Levy. www.amazon.com


A Computer Perspective : Background to the Computer Age by Charles Eames, Ray Eames (Contributor)
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
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Superb Narratives


The Pattern on the Stone : The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work (Science Masters Series) by Daniel Hillis.


Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams : Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds (Complex Adaptive Systems) by Mitchel Resnick, Mitchell Resnick.


Growing Artificial Societies : Social Science from the Bottom Up (Complex Adaptive Systems) by Joshua M. Epstein, 2050 Project, Robert L. Axtell (Contributor).


Blondie24: Playing at the Edge of AI by David B. Fogel.

 

Introductions with Software Examples

Artificial Life Playhouse : Evolution at Your Fingertips by Stephen Prata w/disk,
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Artificial Life Lab: Design your own Windows world of cybernetic creatures with the incredible 3D multimedia Boppers program by Rudy Rucker w/disk.
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Artificial Life Explorer's Kit by Ellen Thro w/disk.
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Creating Artificial Life by Edward Rietman w/disk.
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Modeling Nature: Cellular Automata Simulations with Mathematica by Richard Gaylord and Kazume Nishidate w/disk.
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Simulating Ecological and Evolutionary Systems in C by Will Wilson, William G. Wilson
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Theory and Philosophy


Artificial Life : An Overview (Complex Adaptive Systems) by Christopher G. Langton (Editor).
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The Philosophy of Artificial Life (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) by Margaret A. Boden (Editor).
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Introduction to Artificial Life by Christoph Adami.
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The Theory of the Artificial by Massimo Negrotti.
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Art, Aesthetics and Visualizations


Illustrating Evolutionary Computation With Mathematica by Christian Jacob.
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Evolutionary Architecture : Nature As a Basis for Design by Eugene Tsui.
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Fractal Cities : A Geometry of Form and Function by Michael Batty, Paul Longley.
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells (Virtual Laboratory) by Hans Meinhardt, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Deborah R. Fowler.
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (The Virtual Laboratory) by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer.
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals by Jaap A. Kaandorp, Janet E. Kubler.
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The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation by Gary William Flake.
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Evolutionary Design by Computers by Peter Bentley (Editor).
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Creative Evolutionary Systems (With CD-ROM) by Peter J. Bentley (Editor), David W. Corne (Editor).
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(Anticipatory science fiction...)
Permutation City by Greg Egan
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Digital Biology by Peter J. Bentley
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Cellular Automata

Cellular Automata Machines by Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus.
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Cellular Automata and Complexity : Collected Papers by Stephen Wolfram
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A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
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C++ Simulations and Cellular Automata by Scott Robert Ladd
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Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Marina del Rey, 1997. Edited by Lewis Johnson.
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Co-Ordination in Artificial Agent Societies : Social Structures and Its Implications for Autonomous Problem-Solving Agents (Lecture Notes in Computer) by Sascha Ossowski
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Creating Personalities for Synthetic Actors : Towards Autonomous Personality Agents (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1195)
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Autonomous Agents and Mult-Agent Systems : Explorations in Learning, Self-Organization and Adaptive Computation by Jiming Liu
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Multi-Agent Rationality : 8th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, Maamaw'97, Ronneby, Sweden, May 13-16, 1997 : p by M. Boman (Editor), W. Van De Velde (Editor)
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Multiagent Systems by Gerhard Weiss (Editor)
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Cognition in the Wild by Edwin Hutchins
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Evolutionary Computation

Handbook of Evolutionary Computation by Thomas Back (Editor), David B. Fogel (Editor), Zbigniew Michalewicz (Editor).
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Evolutionary Computation : The Fossil Record by David B. Fogel (Editor).
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Evolutionary Computation : Towards a New Philosophy of Machine Intelligence by David B. Fogel
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Evolutionary Computation 1: Basic Algorithms and Operators by Thomas Baeck (Editor), David B. Fogel (Editor), Zbigniew Michalewicz (Editor), Thomas Back (Editor).
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Evolutionary Computation 2: Advanced Algorithms and Operators by Thomas Back (Editor), David B. Fogel (Editor), Zbigniew Michalewicz (Editor).
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Evolutionary Programming

Intelligence Through Simulated Evolution : Forty Years of Evolutionary Programming (Wiley Series on Intelligent Systems) by Lawrence J. Fogel
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Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming 24-26 Feb 94 San Diego, California, USA by Anthony V. Sebald, Lawrence J. Fogel
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Evolutionary Programming IV by California Conference on Evolutionary Programming 1995 San Diego, John R. McDonnell (Editor), Robert G. Reynolds (Editor), David B. Fogel (Editor)
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Evolutionary Programming V : Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming (Complex Adaptive Systems Series) by Lawrence J. Fogel (Editor), Peter J. Angeline (Editor), Thomas Back (Editor)
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Genetic Algorithms

An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms by Melanie Mitchell.
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Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning by David E. Goldberg.
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Genetic Programming

Genetic Programming : An Introduction : On the Automatic Evolution of Computer Programs and Its Applications by Wolfgang Banzhaf, Peter Nordin, Robert E. Keller, Frank D. Francone.
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Genetic Programming by John R. Koza.
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Genetic Programming II by John R. Koza.
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Genetic Programming III: Automatic Programming and Automatic Circuit Synthesis by John R. Koza, Forrest H. Bennett III, Forrest H. Bennett, David Andre, Martin A. Keane.
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From Animals to Animats

From Animals to Animats.
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From Animals to Animats 2.
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From Animals to Animats 3.
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From Animals to Animats 4.
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From Animals to Animats 5.
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From Animals to Animats 6.
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European Conferences on Artificial Life


Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems. Proceedings fo the First European Conference on Artificial Life, Paris 1991. Edited by Francisco Varela and Paul Bourgine.

Second European Conference on Artificial Life.

Advances in Artificial Life: Third European Conference on Artificial Life, Granada, Spain, June 4-6, 1995 : Proceedings by F. Moran, A. Moreno, J.J. Merelo, P. Chacon.
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Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life (Complex Adaptive Systems) by England) European Conference on Artificial Life 1997 Brighton, Phil Husbands, Inman Harvey (Editor).
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Advances in Artificial Life : 5th European Conference, Ecal'99, Lausanne, Switzerland, September, 1999 : Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer scien by D. Floreano (Editor), J.-D. Nicoud (Editor), F. Mondada (Editor).
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Advances in Artificial Life : 6th European Conference, Ecal 2001, Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-14, 2001, Proceedings www.amazon.com

 

US Conference on Artificial Life

Artificial Life: Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Los Alamos 1987. Edited by Christopher Langton.

Artificial Life II: Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Life, Santa Fe 1990. Edited by Christopher Langton, Charles Taylor, Doyne Farmer, Steen Rasmussen.

Artificial Life III : Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Life, Santa Fe 1992.
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Artificial Life IV : Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (Complex Adaptive Systems), Cambridge 1994. Edited by Rodney A. Brooks, Pattie Maes.
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Artificial Life V : Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (Complex Adaptive Systems) by International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living systems, Nara 1996. Edited by Christopher G. Langton, Taksunori Shimohara.
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Artificial Life VI : Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life (Complex Adaptive Systems), Los Angeles 1998. Edited by Adami Christoph, Christoph Adami, Christopher Adami, Charles Taylor, Richard K. Belew.
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Artificial Life VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life, Seattle 2000. Edited by Mark Bedau, John McCaskill, Norman Packard.
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Parallel Problem Solving from Nature

 

 

Parallel Problem Solving from Nature-PPSN IV: International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, the 4th International Conference on Parallel prob by Hans-Michael Voigt (Editor), Werner Ebeling (Editor), Ingo Rechenberg
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Parallel Problem Solving from Nature-PPSN V: 5th International Conference Amsterdam, the Netherlands September 27-30, 1998 : Proceedings (Lecture not by Agoston E. Eiben (Editor), Marc Schoenauer (Editor), Thomas Back (Editor)

Parallel Problem Solving from Nature PPSN VI by france Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature 2000 Paris