TY - JOUR T1 - ALife and Society: Editorial Introduction to the Artificial Life Conference 2016 Special Issue JF - Artificial Life Y1 - 2018 A1 - Siqueiros-García, Jesús M. A1 - Froese, Tom A1 - Gershenson, Carlos A1 - Aguilar, Wendy A1 - Sayama, Hiroki A1 - Izquierdo, Eduardo PB - MIT Press VL - 24 SN - 1064-5462 UR - https://doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_e_00256 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Past, Present, and Future of Artificial Life JF - Frontiers in Robotics and AI Y1 - 2014 A1 - Aguilar, Wendy A1 - Santamaría Bonfil, Guillermo A1 - Froese, Tom A1 - Gershenson, Carlos AB -

For millennia people have wondered what makes the living different from the non-living. Beginning in the mid-1980s, artificial life has studied living systems using a synthetic approach: build life in order to understand it better, be it by means of software, hardware, or wetware. This review provides a summary of the advances that led to the development of artificial life, its current research topics, and open problems and opportunities. We classify artificial life research into fourteen themes: origins of life, autonomy, self-organization, adaptation (including evolution, development, and learning), ecology, artificial societies, behavior, computational biology, artificial chemistries, information, living technology, art, and philosophy. Being interdisciplinary, artificial life seems to be losing its boundaries and merging with other fields.

VL - 1 UR - http://www.frontiersin.org/computational_intelligence/10.3389/frobt.2014.00008/abstract ER -