References???
Hello,
Assuming that someone in the field is reading this, would you be kind enough to provide a few good, up to date, state of the art, references on the subject? I'm talking about books mainly, not paper (at least not yet) unless they are available for free on the net.
I'm mainly interested in understanding what are the current thread of the field and having a good book that places the major concepts.
You should assume that my knowledges are very low.
I can read in english and in french.
Regards,
References???
not too sure what you want really , but if its just about artifical life in general i would look up terra , its one of the cornerstones of alife. theres lots of alife pages out there , although there mostly based on genetic algorythems. so if you know them you pretty much know how every artifical life simulatoin works.also nerual nets which MATLAB has good documentatoin on. depends what you want
you might want to google jk :) also Tom Ray , also the suger and spice framework which was or still being used to find out why a tribe of indians died. framsticks for walkers , genepool for attactiveness in natural selctoin. erm boids. look up karl sim hes done alot of stuff as well as j.conway. i think for newcommers there sorta the cream of the crop. it'll give a id of what kind of stuff is happining, i think jks made some speaches and suchlike which i think you can find through links on his site.
if your more specific in what you want im sure i'll have some stuff to help you.
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I'm mainly looking for scholar books, the one that people who have courses on the field use to learn the basic of AI and to have a picture of the current state of the art.
A bit like if someone wants to studies physics from the beginning you'll tell them to have a look at Halliday and Resnick.
The "Net" usually don't go deep enough into the details or assume that you already know a lot. They are either polarized in one way or another.
But thanks for the links anyway, I'm sure they'll prove usefull in time. :D
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You can't go wrong with Steven Levy's Artificial Life. It's not quite a textbook, but I've used portions of it for readings in intro-level artificial life and AI-related courses and it's worked quite well.
- jon
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Thanks Jon,
Sounds good, I'll give it a try!
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I'm still waiting for my amazon order to arrive (mid-july)... So in the mean time, I've bought myself an interesting small book on evolution:
"River out of a Eden - A Darwinian View of Life."
Richard Dawkins, 1995.
If you haven't read this book, I strongly suggest to read it. It's less then 200 pages in a small pocket format. It does not talk about programmation, but about the way (some) "evolutionist" think mother nature is doing it... Very interesting...