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Self-Organization and Artificial Life: A Review

Carlos Gershenson, Vito Trianni, Justin Werfel, Hiroki Sayama
(Submitted on 3 Apr 2018)

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.

Comments:

8 pages, submitted to ALife 2018
Subjects:
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE); Robotics (cs.RO)
Cite as:
arXiv:1804.01144 [nlin.AO]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01144