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Last updated: June 20, 2006

Where to start?

• What are Complex Adaptive Systems?
• What is Life?
• What is Artificial Life?
• An introduction to artificial life, Moshe Sipper, AI Expert, 1995.
• If the Milieu is Reasonable: Lessons from Nature on Creating Life, Moshe Sipper, Journal of Transfigural Mathematics, 1997.
• Evolutionary Algorithms (an introduction), Marco Tomassini, 1996.

Journals

• Adaptive Behavior
• Advances in Complex Systems
• Artificial Life
• Artificial Life and Robotics
• BioSystems
• Complexity
• Complexity International (e-journal)
• Complex Systems
• Evolutionary Computation
• Evolutionary Optimization
• Evolution of Communication
• Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
• IEEE Transactions On Evolutionary Computation
• InterJournal (e-journal, Complex Systems + other areas)
• International Journal of Modern Physics C (Physics and Computers)
• International Journal of Unconventional Computing
• Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
• Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission (e-journal)
• Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General
• Journal of Transfigural Mathematics
• Nanotechnology
• Nature
• New Scientist
• Physica D (Nonlinear Phenomena)
• Science
• Scientific American

Conferences

1995

Date	Conference
Jun. 4-6	ECAL'95: 3rd. European Conference on Artificial Life
Oct. 2-3	Towards Evolvable Hardware: An International Workshop

1996

Date	Conference
Feb. 29-Mar. 3	The Fifth Annual Conference On Evolutionary Programming
Mar. 4-5	Biologically Inspired Autonomous Systems
Mar. 4-22	Second Online Workshop on Evolutionary Computation (WEC2)
May 16-18	Artificial Life V
May 20-22	1996 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (along with the First International Contest on Evolutionary Optimization)
Jul. 28-31	GP-96 - Genetic Programming 96
Aug. 3-5	Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Workshop (FOGA4)
Aug. 19-30	The 1st Online Workshop on Soft Computing
Aug. 27-29	Euro-Par'96
Sep. 9-13	From Animals To Animats: Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB96)
Sep. 16-20	PARCELLA 96: Parallel Processing by Cellular Automata and Arrays
Sep. 22-27	Fourth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN IV)
Oct. 7-8	The First International Conference on Evolvable Systems: from Biology to Hardware (ICES96)
Oct. 16-18	Second Conference on Cellular Automata in Research and Industry (ACRI'96)
Nov. 22-24	Fourth Workshop on Physics and Computation (PhysComp96)
Dec. 13-14	Workshop On the Origins of Cognition (OC'96)

1997

Date	Conference
Feb. 5-8	The First International Conference on Autonomous Agents
Mar. 2-5	Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Mar. 24-28	First International Conference on Semigroups & Algebraic Engineering
Apr. 1-4	Third International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA97)
Apr. 7-8	Fourth Workshop on Evolutionary Computing (held as part of the AISB 97 Workshop Series)
Apr. 13-16	1997 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC'97), including special session Toward Evolware
Apr. 16-18	Fifth Annual IEEE Symposium on Custom Computing Machines
Apr. 17-18	Second German Workshop on Artificial Life
Jun. 23-27	2nd On-line World Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing (WSC2)
Jul. 13-16	GP-97 - Genetic Programming 97
Jul. 19-23	Seventh International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-97)
Jul. 25	The von Neumann Day
Jul. 28-31	ECAL97 -- Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life
Aug. 23-29	Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97)
Sep. 1-4	Second International Workshop On Information Processing In Cells And Tissues (IPCAT'97)
Sep. 1-2	Bio-Computing and Emergent Computation International Conference (BCEC97)
Sep. 2-4	Genetic ALgorithms in Engineering Systems: Innovations and Applications (Galesia '97)
Sep. 3-4	Euromicro-Workshop on Computational Intelligence
Sep. 21-26	International Conference on Complex Systems
Sep. 24-26	6th International Conference on Microelectronics for Neural Networks, Evolutionary & Fuzzy Systems
Oct. 20-24	IEEE First International Conference on Intelligent Processing Systems (IEEE ICIPS'97) (including special session on Evolutionary Systems and Neural Networks)
Oct. 21-24	Evolution Artificielle 97 - EA'97
Oct. 21-25	International Workshop on Mathematical & Computational Biology: Computational Morphogenesis, Hierarchical Complexity & Digital Evolution
Nov. 5-8	The Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology

1998

Date	Conference
Jan. 5-11	First International Conference on Unconventional Models of Computation
Jan. 6-9	31st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-31) (including minitarck: Configware: dynamic Redefinition of Hardware/Software Boundary)
Jan. 19-21	Third International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB'98)
Jan. 29-30	Workshop on Artificial Life and Adaptive Robots
Feb. 9-11	International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Multimedia Applications
Mar. 5-6	Modeling with Cellular Automata (MoCA 98)
Mar. 25-27	The Seventh Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming (EP98)
Mar. 30 - Apr. 3	First Merged Symposium IPPS/SPDP 1998 (International Parallel Processing Symposium / Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing), including: 5th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW'98), and First Workshop on Biologically Inspired Solutions to Parallel Processing Problems (BioSP3).
Apr. 6-9	Third International Conference on Massively Parallel Computing Systems
Apr. 14-15	First European Workshop on Genetic Programming 1998 (EUROGP'98)
May. 5-9	1998 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, part of the 1998 World Congress on Computational Intelligence
Jun. 21-30	3rd On-line World Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing (WSC3)
Jun. 26-29	Artificial Life VI
Jul. 1-3	First International Conference on Virtual Worlds
Jul. 3-8	First International Workshop on Collective Robotics (CRW'98)
Jul. 22-25	Genetic Programming 1998 Conference (GP-98)
Aug. 17-21	From Animals To Animats: Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB98)
Sep. 7-10	EUFIT - The European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing
Sep. 17-18	3rd German Workshop on Artificial Life 1998 (GWAL'98)
Sep. 23-26	Second International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES98)
Sep. 27 - Oct. 1	Fifth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN-V)
Oct. 7-9	Third International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 98)
Oct. 15-16	ANTS'98 - From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants: First International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization
Nov. 30-Dec. 3	Complex Systems '98: Complexity Between the Ecos - From Ecology to Economics

1999

Date	Conference
Jan. 19-22	Fourth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 4th '99)
Apr. 6-9	Fourth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA99)
May 25-27	International Conference on Computational Intelligence: 6th Fuzzy Days
May 26-27	Second European Workshop on Genetic Programming (EuroGP'99)
Jul. 6-9	1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC99)
Jul. 14-17	1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 99)
Jul. 19-21	The First NASA/DOD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware
Aug. 22-25	The 8th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE'99 )
Sep. 13-17	5th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL99)
Nov. 3-5	Evolution Artificielle 99

2000

Date	Conference
Jan 26-28	The Fifth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 5th '00)
Jan 29	Evolutionary Computation and Cognitive Science (ECCS 2000)
Feb 27-Mar 3	The Third International Workshop on Frontiers in Evolutionary Algorithms (FEA 2000)
Apr. 5-7	4th German Workshop on Artificial Life (GWAL 2000)
Apr. 15-16	Third European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP2000)
Apr. 17-19	Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES2000)
May. 7-10	The 9th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2000 )
May. 11-12	The First IEEE Symposium on Combinations of Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks
Jul. 5-7	Virtual Worlds 2000: Second International Conference on Virtual Worlds
Jul. 8-12	Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2000 Conference (GECCO-2000)
Jul. 13-15	The Second NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware
Jul. 16-19	2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Aug. 1-6	Artificial Life VII
Aug. 28-30	The 10th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2000 (with emphasis on Evolvable Hardware)
Sep. 11-15	From Animals to Animats: The Sixth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2000)
Sep. 16-20	The Sixth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VI)
Oct. 4-6	Fourth International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2000)
Dec. 14-15	3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Generative Art

2001

Date	Conference
Apr 18-20	Fourth European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP2001)
Apr 22-25	Fifth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA 2001)
May 27-30	2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2001)
Jul 7-11	Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2001 Conference (GECCO-2001)
Jul. 12-14	The Third NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware
Aug 13-17	Fourth International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT'2001)
Sep 10-14	Sixth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2001)
Oct 3-5	The 4th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology To Hardware (ICES2001)
Oct. 29-31	Evolution Artificielle 2001
Dec 2-5	The 10th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2001)

2002

Date	Conference
April 3-5	5th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP2002)
May 12-17	The 2002 World Congress on Computational Intelligence
Jun 28	Turing Day
Jul 9-13	Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2002 Conference (GECCO-2002)
Jul 15-18	2002 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware
Aug 4-9	From Animals to Animats: The 7th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'02)
Sep 7-11	The Seventh International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN VII)
Sep 12-13	13th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science: "Towards Bio-Inspired Computing"
Oct 9-11	Fifth International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2002)
Dec 9-13	Artificial Life VIII
Dec 15-22	International Conference on Soft Computing and Applications (SC02)

2003

Date	Conference
Mar 17-20	The 5th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES'03)
April 14-16	6th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP2003)
Jul 10-12	2003 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware
Jul 12-16	Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2003 Conference (GECCO-2003)
Sep 8-11	Fifth International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT'2003)
Sep 14-17	7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL2003)
Sep 26-30	Sixth International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Natural Computation
Oct 27-30	Evolution Artificielle 2003 (EA'03)
Dec 8-12	2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2003)

2004

Date	Conference
Jan 29-30	The First International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology (Bio-ADIT 2004)
Mar 6-13	Alife Mutants' Hackingsession on Systems and Organisms: First Rule 110 Winter Workshop
Jun 19-23	Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2004)
Jun 26-30	Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004)
Jul 4-12	4th Conference on Computers and Games
Jul 13-17	From Animals to Animats 8: Eighth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'04)
Aug 26-28	Swarm Intelligence and Patterns (SIP'04)
Sep 12-15	9th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE9)
Sep 18-22	8th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VIII)
Oct 7-8	2004 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB)
Oct 11-12	International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications
Oct 25-28	Sixth International conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2004)

2005

Date	Conference
Mar 21-23	7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA 2005)
30/3-1/4	EuroGP2005 & EvoCOP2005, incorporating EvoWorkshops2005
Apr 4-6	IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games
May 22-25	Modelling of Complex Systems by Cellular Automata Workshop (MCSCA 2005)
Jun 25-29	Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005)
30/8-1/9	Sixth International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT2005)
Sep 2-5	2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2005)
Sep 4-8	ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life
Sep 12-14	International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES'05)
Nov 14-15	2005 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB)
Nov 14-18	European Conference on Complex Systems

2006

Date	Conference
Sep 9-13	9th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN IX)

Research Groups (An Incidental Sampling...)

• Adaptive Computation Group at the University of New Mexico
• ALife group, Iowa State University
• Cellular Programming: Evolution of Parallel Cellular Machines
• Center for Complex Systems, Florida Atlantic University
• Center for Complex Systems Research (CCSR), Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Evolving Cellular Automata (EVCA), and other research groups at the Santa Fe Institute
• Logic Systems Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
• MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
• MIT Media Lab
• New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)
• Program for Study of Complex Systems (PSCS), University of Michigan
• Scientific and Parallel Computing group at the University of Geneva
• School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (COGS), University of Sussex at Brighton

Agents

• UMBC AgentWeb

Ant Algorithms

• Ant Colony Optimization Home Page
• Ant Colony Optimization Java Demo & Tutorial

Artificial Life

• Artificial Life section of CMU AI Repository
• ALife syllabus of Leigh Tesfatsion (constantly maintained).
  Also by same author: How economists can get ALife (an ALife intro. for economists).
• Artificial Life: Quest for a New Creation, Steven Levy, 1992.
• The Live Artificial Life Page
• The New Alife Database
• Applets for Neural Networks and Artificial Life

Brain Building

• Brain Building page (Hugo de Garis)

Cellular Automata

• Online introduction
• Cellular automata section of CMU AI Repository
• Conway's Game of Life

Cellular Computing

• Cellular Computing page

Cellular Neural Networks

• University of Parma CNN page

Cellular Programming

• Cellular Programming: Evolution of Parallel Cellular Machines

Complex Adaptive Systems

• CALResCo - Complexity & Artificial Life Research Concept
• Serendip complex systems page

Cybernetics

• Principia Cybernetica Web

DNA Computing

• World Wide DNA Computing, Computational Biology, and Molecular Computing

Evolutionary Computation

• EVALife's BBase (Literature search on Evolutionary Computation)
• EvoNet (European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing)

Evolvable Hardware

• Towards Evolvable Hardware (the 1995 inaugural workshop)
• Hardware Evolution Research

Flocking Behavior

• Boids (artificial birds) (Craig Reynolds)
• Floys

Genetic Algorithms

• Online introduction
• Genetic Algorithms Tutorial
• Evolutionary Algorithms (introductory paper)
• The Genetic Algorithms Archive
• Genetic Programming and Genetic Algorithms resources
• Genetic Programming Notebook
• The GA Playground (A general GA toolkit implemented in Java)

Genetic Art

• Karl Sims
• Artificial Painter

Genetic Programming

• Genetic Programming and Genetic Algorithms resources
• Lithos (a stack-based evolutionary computation system)

L-systems

• An Introduction to Lindenmayer Systems
• Fractint L-systems Tutorial
• L-systems Java demo
• Another L-systems Java demo
• Links to L-systems Software

Memetic Algorithms

• Bibliography on Memetic algorithms

Morphs

• Alain Gogniat's wonderful Java biomorphs
• Interactive morphs page

Nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology page

Quantum Computing

• Quantum computing

Reversible Computing

• What is reversible logic?
• MIT AI Lab Reversible Computing Home Page

Self-Replication

• The Artificial Self-Replication Page

Tierra

• Tierra (Tom Ray)
• Avida

Virtual Creatures

• darwinbots
• Virtual Creatures (Karl Sims)
• Framsticks

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