Alife in the Clouds: A Short Review of Applications of Artificial Life to Cloud Computing and Back

• Main Authors: Juan-Julián Merelo-Guervós, Pedro A. Castillo, Mario García-Valdez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-01-01
• Series: Frontiers in Robotics and AI
• Subjects: artificial life; cloud computing; distributed computing; complex systems; complex adaptive systems
• Online Access: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frobt.2017.00064/full

Cloud computing is currently the prevailing mode of designing, creating, and deploying complex applications, and it has implied a paradigm shift in all three areas; even if it taps and extends previous concepts such as service oriented, concurrent, and distributed computing, this shift has to be eventually translated to the algorithmic and conceptual aspects of sciences such as artificial life. In this short paper, we will review how the world of cloud computing has intersected the artificial life field, and how it has been used as an inspiration for new models or the design and implementation of new and powerful algorithms; in the other direction, we will also examine how artificial life concepts such as self-organization have been applied to the field of cloud computing.