What's Evolving in Wet A-Life? / Gerald F. Joyce -- Computational Complexity in the Life Sciences / Christos H. Papadimitriou and Martha Sideri -- Evolution of Linguistic Diversity in a Simple Communication System / Takaya Arita and Yuhji Koyama -- Ruggedness and Neutrality -- The NKp Family of Fitness Landscapes / Lionel Barnett -- Evolving Reaction-Diffusion Ecosystems with Self-Assembling Structures in Thin Films / Jens Breyer, Jorg Ackermann and John McCaskill -- Computational Models for the Formation of Protocell Structures / Linglan Edwards and Yun Peng -- Emergence of Multicellular Organisms with Dynamic Differentiation and Spatial Pattern / Chikara Furusawa and Kunihiko Kaneko.
Summary
The term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess some of the essential properties of life. This interdisciplinary text includes looking at the field in an attempt to understand high-level behaviour from low-level rules.