Artificial life
Nov 5, 2024
Engineering design optimization poses a significant challenge, usually requiring human expertise to discover superior solutions. Although various search techniques have been employed to generate diverse designs, their effectiveness is often limited b...
Artificial life
Nov 5, 2024
Modular robots are collections of simple embodied agents, the modules, that interact with each other to achieve complex behaviors. Each module may have a limited capability of perceiving the environment and performing actions; nevertheless, by behavi...
Artificial life
Nov 5, 2024
This work concerns the long-term collective excitability properties and the statistical analysis of the critical events displayed by a recently introduced spatiotemporal many-body model, proposed as a new paradigm for Artificial Life. Numerical simul...
Artificial life
May 1, 2024
This article proposes a method for an artificial agent to behave in a social manner. Although defining proper social behavior is difficult because it differs from situation to situation, the agent following the proposed method adaptively behaves appr...
Artificial life
May 1, 2024
Biological agents have bodies that are composed mostly of soft tissue. Researchers have resorted to soft bodies to investigate Artificial Life (ALife)-related questions; similarly, a new era of soft-bodied robots has just begun. Nevertheless, because...
Artificial life
Feb 1, 2024
Nowadays, interdisciplinary fields between Artificial Life, artificial intelligence, computational biology, and synthetic biology are increasingly emerging into public view. It is necessary to reconsider the relations between the material body, ident...
Artificial life
Feb 1, 2024
We survey the general trajectory of artificial intelligence (AI) over the last century, in the context of influences from Artificial Life. With a broad brush, we can divide technical approaches to solving AI problems into two camps: GOFAIstic (or com...
Artificial life
Nov 1, 2023
In sociotechnical settings, human operators are increasingly assisted by decision support systems. By employing such systems, important properties of sociotechnical systems, such as self-adaptation and self-optimization, are expected to improve furth...
Artificial life
Nov 1, 2023
The prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) tools that filter the information given to internet users, such as recommender systems and diverse personalizers, may be creating troubling long-term side effects to the obvious short-term conveniences. ...
Artificial life
Nov 1, 2023
The main idea behind artificial intelligence was simple: what if we study living systems to develop new, practical computing systems that possess "lifelike" properties? And that's exactly how evolutionary computing emerged. Researchers came up with i...