the water crisis is harmful effects on human life. also one of the most problems in the human society is water resources management. in this study, site selection of most suitable areas for artificial recharge using boolean model. criteria used to select the most suitable area for artificial recharge included: infiltration, slope, aquifer thickness, aquifer quality.  the layers were produced an...

We have built some simple, but useful, cooperative Artificial Life agents. Based on this experience and by contrasting our work with computer viruses, we argue that Artificial Life (the simulation of life including evolution) can only remain reliably and indefinitely cooperative if it adheres to explicitly-specified social conventions. Breaking or neglecting these conventions results in systems...

Many artificial life researchers stress the interdisciplinary character of the field. Against such a backdrop, this paper reviews and discusses artificial life, as it is depicted in, and as it interfaces with, adjacent disciplines (in particular, philosophy, biology, and linguistics), and in the light of a specific historical example of interdisciplinary research (namely cybernetics) with which...

In this first chapter we give a brief overview over the historical origin of the relatively young field in science called Artificial Life. Besides which, we try to give the reader an idea of the controversial understandings of Natural Life and the comparatively straight-forward definition of Artificial Life. In the third part of this first chapter we introduce the main methodology used in Artif...

Many artificial life researchers stress the interdisciplinary character of the field. Against such a backdrop, this report reviews and discusses artificial life, as it is depicted in, and as it interfaces with, adjacent disciplines (in particular, philosophy, biology, and linguistics), and in the light of a specific historical example of interdisciplinary research (namely cybernetics) with whic...

or Die: Life, Artificial Life and (v)organisms Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx The Evolutionary Processing Group Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

The extent to which extraterrestrial life questions can be confidently addressed rests in large measure on the extent to which terrestrial life is representative of life in general since we will have to draw from terrestrial life knowledge. This paper outlines a long-term research program that could inform the extent to which terrestrial life is representative of life more generally, which migh...

The Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory has become a fundamental tool in modeling the metabolic behaviour of organisms. Its capacity to describe the biological aspect of life alone justifies its applicability in Artificial Life. Aware of this potential, the DEB research group in Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon has joined the videogame company Biodroid Entertainment in the Life Engine ...

The effect that learning has on Life History Evolution has recently been studied using a series of Artificial Life simulations in which populations of competing individuals evolve to learn to perform well on simple abstract tasks. Those simulations assumed that learning was achieved by identifying patterns in sets of training data, i.e. through direct experience. In practice, learning is not on...