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Artificial Life links

• Artificial Life Online 2.0 [here]

The ultimate resource for Artifcial Life!

• The Santa Fe Institute [here]

  (Where complex people study complex things.)

• Artificial Life bibliography [here]

  A list of online publications related to Artificial Life. There are over 500 links.

• Links to complex adaptive systems, Artificial Life, and Emergent Computation at University of Dortmund [here]

  A list of Web links from the University of Dortmund's Department of Computer Science, devoted to Artificial Life and related topics.

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• An introduction to cellular automata [here]

  This site provides explanations for a range of 'classic' cellular automata. It also has some Java applets that you can play around with.

• Another introduction to cellular automata [here]

  A brief introduction to 'classic' cellular automata at the Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, NADA, at KTH--the Royal Institute of Technology--in Stockholm, Sweden. There are a few Java applets of gliders, etc. and it is a good resource for information on Turing Machines.

• Andy Wuensche's Discrete Dynamics Lab [here]

  "Tools for researching discrete dynamical networks - from Cellular Automata to Random Boolean Networks and beyond"

• David Griffeath's Primordial Soup Kitchen [here]

An excellent set of resoures on Artificial Life, cellular automata, and lots of other things at the Univesity of Wisconsin, Madison's Department of Mathematics

• Edwin Martin's Game of Life applet [here]

• The top 60 Game of Life objects [here]

  The most common funky furbies and wacky wombats generated by the Game of Life.

• Craig Reynolds's (of Boids fame) page on Individual-Based Models [here]

Boids are some of the most popular spatial agents (really they are more like Animats): simulated fish- or bird-like creatures that wander, float, or swim around virtual environments.

• Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis agent pages [here]

Some pages on our various multi-agent systems simulation prjects.

• Leigh Tesfastion's Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) site [here]

Lots and lots of resources pretaining to Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE): the study of economies using evoloving systems of interacting autonomus agents.

• The Brookings Institution's Sugarscape pages [here]

Sugarscape is an multi-agent policy simulation environment used to study a range of things from the evolution of culture as a complex adaptive system to the dynamics of conflict. The Brookings Institution also houses the Center on Social and Economics Dynamics; they maintain agent-based modeling pages here.

• James MacGill's geographical Boids at Leeds Centre for Computational Geography [here]

Lots of geographically-tinged Java resources for Boids, and agents as a Geographic Flocking Machine.

• The CommunityViz project at the Environmental Simulation Center [here]

CommunityViz is a project that is being developed by a group at Price Waterhouse Coopers in collaboraton with the Environmental Simulation Center, designed to combine agent-based models of population dynamics and behaviors with 3D visualization environments.

• BotSpot: "The Spot for all Bots and Intelligent Agents" [here]
• Agent Link (European network for agent-based computing) [here]
• Agent technologies [here]
• Intelligent agent systems and applications [here]
• Intelligent agents URLS at University of California San Diego Dept. Computer Science [here]
• Intelligent Agent Group at Trinity College Dublin Dept. Computer Science [here]
• Softbots at the University of Washington Dept. of Computer Science [here]
• Jack Krupansky's software agent links [here]

  These pages are not strictly concerned with spatial agents, although they are good resources for computaional agent-based simulation in general.

   

• Swarming boids [here]

  Swarming boid-like agents as Java applets (code provided).

• Java agent resources [here]

• Edwin Martin's Game of Life applet [here]

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