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SYDE 599

Special Topics in Systems Design Engineering

Undergraduate

Fall 2021 · Topic 37: Artificial Life: Biology and Computation

Topics

  • Artificial life and cybernetics
  • Biological evolution, molecular genetics and digital organisms
  • Cellular automata and genetic regulatory networks
  • Swarm intelligence and stigmergy
  • Self-reproduction
  • Evolutionary systems and optimization
  • Growth and morphogenesis
  • Ethics of artificial life
  • Possible multicellularity, evolvability and origins-of-life topics

Readings

  • Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems
    Hiroki Sayama · unspecified
    Selected sections used; freely downloadable at http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~sayama/textbook/
  • Articles, journal papers and book chapters assigned weekly.
    unspecified
Sources