CS 652 Emergent and Adaptive Computation

Course Information and Policies   Instructor Information   Syllabus

EAC Project Definition                            

Maturana's article on autopoeisis       Better copy of Morowitz article (no images)
      1D CA Sampler       Hexagonal 2D CA Sampler

            Interesting Video on Emergence
      Example Scale-Free Network
      Range of Random Graphs, Small-World Most Like the Middle>

Notes on the readings       Response Writings

      Slides on artificial immune systems          

Slides on an autopoietic framework for complex adaptive systems                                  

Scott Bolland's Copycat Applet    




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Some students may be seeking a background text.
The text below is excellent for this purpose.
The Computational Beauty of Nature:
Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos,
Complex Systems, and Adaptation


For additional background in
traditional AI approaches, see:

Artificial Intelligence:
Structures and Strategies for
Complex Problem Solving


For searching academic publications:
Citeseer (citeseer.ist.psu.edu)

Some Related Links:
ACM Special Interest Group on Evolutionary Computation
ICARIS-International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems
Santa Fe Institute
New England Complex Systems Institute
Boston University Center for Adaptive Systems
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Cognitive Science Society
AI Programming Resources

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