Open Problems in Artificial Life

Open Problems in Artificial Life

This article lists fourteen open problems in artificial life, each of which is a grand challenge requiring a major advance on a fundamental issue for its solution. Each problem is briefly explained, and, where deemed helpful, some promising paths to its solution are indicated.

Emotion in Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life Research: Facing Problems

In last decades, neuroscience and psychology research findings about emotion have been increasingly attracting the attention of many researchers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) areas. AI, interested in cognitive processes modeling and simulation, clearly see that emotion is a crucial element to model perception, learning, decision processes, memory, behavior and others func...

Using Artificial Life to Solve Problems

In this thesis, a method incorporating artificial life and genetic algorithms into a hybrid system for problem solving is presented. An ecosystem is created containing agents that live off rewriting solutions to problems. If an agent rewrites a solution so that it becomes a better solution, the agent gains some energy. This amount of energy is proportional to the improvement of the solution. Th...

Potential and Promise of Open-Ended Evolution in Artificial Life

Since Bedau et al. identified the simulation of open-ended evolution in digital life media as one of the key problems in the field of Artificial Life (Bedeau et al., 2000, Artificial Life 6, p.363), no attempt has convincingly solved the problem until this day. Creating open-ended evolution ultimately boils down to creating niches: A new evolutionary feature can only be retained if there is an ...

Prospects for Open-Ended Evolution in Artificial Life