| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 電機工程研究所 === 84 === This is a survey thesis on Artificial Life (ALife). An overview
is given, and the prospect is shown from an engineering point
of view. ALife is a new wave science, founded in 1987, for the
quest of life by recreating "life" phenomena within computer or
other "artificial" media. Being interdisciplinary, ALife
connects tightly especially with traditional biology,
artificial intelligence (AI), and complex science. ALife is
often regarded as a branch of complex science, because ALife
studies "emergent" phenomena of life in particular and complex
science studies those of dynamical systems in general. ALife is
distinct from traditional sciences by its special emphases on
"bottom-up", "emergence", "self-organization", "self-
reproduction", and "open-ended evolution". From these novel
concepts, we show that ALife is in prospect of being (1) as a
new methodology for artificial intelligence, (2) as an
application and an analysis tool for parallel computing, (3) as
a model of individual-based systems.
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