Several necessary conditions for the evolution of complex forms of life in an artificial environment Export

@article{citeulike:2937820, abstract = {In order for an artificial life (Alife) system to evolve complex creatures, an artificial environment prepared by a designer has to satisfy several conditions. To clarify this requirement, we first assume that an artificial environment implemented in the computational medium is composed of an information space in which elementary symbols move around and react with each other according to human-prepared elementary rules. As fundamental properties of these factors (space, symbols, transportation, and reaction), we present ten criteria from a comparison with the biochemical reaction space in the real world. Then, in the latter half of the article, we take several computational Alife systems one by one, and assess them in terms of the proposed criteria. The assessment can be used not only for improving previous Alife systems but also for devising new Alife models in which complex forms of artificial creatures can be expected to evolve.}, address = {Cambridge, MA, USA}, author = {Suzuki, Hideaki and Ono, Naoaki and Yuta, Kikuo}, citeulike-article-id = {2937820}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=860914.860917}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/106454603322221504}, doi = {10.1162/106454603322221504}, issn = {1064-5462}, journal = {Artif. Life}, keywords = {alife, avida, criteria, model, review, tierra}, number = {2}, pages = {153--174}, posted-at = {2009-10-30 11:52:34}, priority = {2}, publisher = {MIT Press}, title = {Several necessary conditions for the evolution of complex forms of life in an artificial environment}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/106454603322221504}, volume = {9}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2937820 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2937820 N2 - In order for an artificial life (Alife) system to evolve complex creatures, an artificial environment prepared by a designer has to satisfy several conditions. To clarify this requirement, we first assume that an artificial environment implemented in the computational medium is composed of an information space in which elementary symbols move around and react with each other according to human-prepared elementary rules. As fundamental properties of these factors (space, symbols, transportation, and reaction), we present ten criteria from a comparison with the biochemical reaction space in the real world. Then, in the latter half of the article, we take several computational Alife systems one by one, and assess them in terms of the proposed criteria. The assessment can be used not only for improving previous Alife systems but also for devising new Alife models in which complex forms of artificial creatures can be expected to evolve. IS - 2 JF - Artif. Life SN - 1064-5462 AD - Cambridge, MA, USA EP - 174 TI - Several necessary conditions for the evolution of complex forms of life in an artificial environment PB - MIT Press VL - 9 SP - 153 KW - alife KW - avida KW - criteria KW - model KW - review KW - tierra AU - Suzuki, Hideaki AU - Ono, Naoaki AU - Yuta, Kikuo PY - 2003/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/106454603322221504 ER -