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ALIFE
2002
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Ant Colony Optimization and Stochastic Gradient Descent
In this paper, we study the relationship between the two techniques known as ant colony optimization (aco) and stochastic gradient descent. More precisely, we show that some empir...
Nicolas Meuleau, Marco Dorigo
ALIFE
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Evolvable Self-Replicating Molecules in an Artificial Chemistry
This paper gives details of Squirm3, a new artificial environment based on a simple physics and chemistry that supports self-replicating molecules somewhat similar to DNA. The sel...
Tim J. Hutton
ALIFE
2002
13 years 11 months ago
"Artificial Societies" and the Social Sciences
nized according to abstract classificatory principles..."5 Adorno's point was that 1 Adorno, T.W., Dahrendorf, R., Pilot, H., Albert, H., Habermas, J. and Popper, K.:The ...
J. Stephen Lansing
ALIFE
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Artificial Life and the Chinese Room Argument
: We use the term 'Strong Artificial Life' to refer to the thesis that a sufficiently sophisticated computer simulation of a life-form is a life-form in its own right. Ca...
David Anderson, B. Jack Copeland
ALIFE
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Autopoiesis and Cognition
This article revisits the concept of autopoiesis and examines its relation to cognition and life. We present a mathematical model of a 3D tesselation automaton, considered as a min...
Paul Bourgine, John Stewart
ALIFE
2004
13 years 11 months ago
The Data-and-Signals Cellular Automaton and Its Application to Growing Structures
In a traditional cellular automaton (CA) a cell is implemented by a rule table defining its state at the next time step, given its present state and those of its neighbors. The cel...
André Stauffer, Moshe Sipper