Artificial chemistries / Wolfgang Banzhaf and Lidia Yamamoto.
2015
QD415 .B24 2015eb
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Title
Artificial chemistries / Wolfgang Banzhaf and Lidia Yamamoto.
ISBN
9780262329460 (electronic bk.)
0262329468 (electronic bk.)
9780262029438 (print)
026202943X
0262329468 (electronic bk.)
9780262029438 (print)
026202943X
Published
Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 555 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
40025104169
Call Number
QD415 .B24 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
572
Summary
The field of Artificial life (ALife) is now firmly established in the scientific world, but it has yet to achieve one of its original goals: an understanding of the emergence of life on Earth. The new field of artificial chemistries draws from chemistry, biology, computer science, mathematics, and other disciplines to work toward that goal. For if, as it has been argued, life emerged from pirmitive, prebiotic forms of self-organizations, then studying models of chemical reaction systems could bring ALife closer to understanding the origins of life. In artificial chemistries (ACs), the emphasis is on creating new interactions rather than new materials. The results can be found in both the virtual world, in certain multiagent systems, and in the physical world, in new (artificial) reaction systems. This book offers an introduction to the fundamental concepts of ACs, covering both theory and practical applications. After a general overview of the field and its methodology, the book reviews important aspects of biology, including basic mechanisms of evolution; discusses examples of ACs drawn from the literature; considers fundamental questions of how surveys a range of applications, which include computing, systems modeling in biology, and synthetic life. An appendix provides a Python toolkit for implementing ACs. -- from back cover.
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