Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary research area trying to reveal and understand the principles and organization of living systems. Its main goal is to artificially synthesize life-like behavior from scratch in computers or other artificial media. Important topics in artificial life include the origin of life, growth and development, evolutionary and ecological dynamics, adaptive autonomous robots, emergence and self-organization, social organization, and cultural evolution.
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(2017). Artificial Life. In: Sammut, C., Webb, G.I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7687-1_920
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