Self-Organization and Artificial Life: A Review

Self-organization has been an important concept within a number of disciplines, which Artificial Life (ALife) also has heavily utilized since its inception. The term and its implications, however, are often confusing or misinterpreted. In this work, we provide a mini-review of self-organization and its relationship with ALife, aiming at initiating discussions on this important topic with the interested audience. We first articulate some fundamental aspects of self-organization, outline its usage, and review its applications to ALife within its soft, hard, and wet domains. We also provide perspectives for further research.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life

• Publication date

  2018-04-03

• Fields of study

  Physics, Materials Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1162/ISAL_A_00094arXiv 1804.01144
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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