Artificial Life III: Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Life Held June, 1992 in Santa Fe, New Mexico (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings)

Artificial Life is the study of man-made systems that exhibit behaviors characteristic of natural living systems, such as self-organization, reproduction, development, and even evolution. It complements the traditional biological sciences concerned with the analysis of living organisms by attempting to synthesize and study life-like behaviors within computers or other 'alternative' media. By extending the empirical foundation upon which biology rests beyond the carbon-chain based life that has evolved on Earth, Artificial Life can contribute to the theoretical biology by locating 'life-as-we-know-it' within the larger context of 'life-as-it-could-be,' in any of its possible physical incarnations. This is the third volume of papers of the proceedings of the Artificial Life workshops. Papers cover work that continues and extends the application of artificial life techniques to science and engineering problems in basic biology, ecology, evolutionary theory and robotics.