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What is Artificial Life
There are at least as many definitions as researcher in our
area. From our point of view:
- It is a way of imitating Nature in order to solve engineering
problems.
- It includes simulation and emulation of living systems like plants, which are simulated by means of
l-systems.
- It tries to achieve a new understanding of living systems, and of
what is life.
This is only our point of view. There are others, which you
can check at their own WWW pages and at the comp.ai.alife newsgroup
FAQ. Here are some links.
MbitiWorld
MbitiWorld 1.0 is an Artificial Life simulation program,
similar in conception to other Artificial Worlds, like the ones created
by Ackley and Larry Yaeger. MbitiWorld is a world
populated by several hundreds of agents. Each agent has got a neural
network (with 8 neurons in the hidden layer), sensors that inform it
about the square in front and effectors that allow it to move, mate
and eat.
If you want to get a extended abstract of
the demonstration presented in the Alife IV conference, click here 
. If you want to download the program, click here
. MSDOS and Windows versions are
included; MSDOS version is bilingual; Windoze version is only in Spanish. A technical report can be downloaded from here. At least a 386/33 MHz with
coprocessor is required, and 1 Meg. free hard disk space.
A little bit of more information, in Spanish, is in the
PCMania
magazine Web pages, in an excellent article written by Gabriel
Segarra.
J. J. Merelo 
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Universidad de Granada Granada (Espaņa)
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