@inbook {GershensonALife2018, title = {Self-Organization and Artificial Life: A Review}, booktitle = {The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life: A Hybrid of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) and the International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE)}, year = {2018}, pages = {510{\textendash}517}, publisher = {MIT Press}, organization = {MIT Press}, address = {Tokyo, Japan}, abstract = {Self-organization has been an important concept within a number of disciplines, which Artificial Life (ALife) also has heavily utilized since its inception. The term and its implications, however, are often confusing or misinterpreted. In this work, we provide a mini-review of self-organization and its relationship with ALife, aiming at initiating discussions on this important topic with the interested audience. We first articulate some fundamental aspects of self-organization, outline its usage, and review its applications to ALife within its soft, hard, and wet domains. We also provide perspectives for further research.}, doi = {10.1162/isal_a_00094}, url = {https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/isal_a_00094}, author = {Gershenson, Carlos and Trianni, Vito and Werfel, Justin and Sayama, Hiroki}, editor = {Takashi Ikegami and Nathaniel Virgo and Olaf Witkowski and Mizuki Oka and Reiji Suzuki and Hiroyuki Iizuka} }