%0 Journal Article %J Artificial Life %D 2018 %T ALife and Society: Editorial Introduction to the Artificial Life Conference 2016 Special Issue %A Siqueiros-García, Jesús M. %A Froese, Tom %A Gershenson, Carlos %A Aguilar, Wendy %A Sayama, Hiroki %A Izquierdo, Eduardo %B Artificial Life %I MIT Press %V 24 %P 1–4 %@ 1064-5462 %G eng %U https://doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_e_00256 %R 10.1162/ARTL_e_00256 %0 Journal Article %J Frontiers in Robotics and AI %D 2014 %T The Past, Present, and Future of Artificial Life %A Aguilar, Wendy %A Santamaría Bonfil, Guillermo %A Froese, Tom %A Gershenson, Carlos %X

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.

%B Frontiers in Robotics and AI %V 1 %G eng %U http://www.frontiersin.org/computational_intelligence/10.3389/frobt.2014.00008/abstract %R 10.3389/frobt.2014.00008