Re: Is alife useful? Does it have commercial usage?

Nikosaki wrote:

> The topic tells it all.
> ALife is interesting but does it has any real usage at the current
> level? If we take NN for example there are many commercial
> applications which use it more or less, it is the same with GA too.
> But I could not find any about alife. Ofcourse there are some games,
> researches and others but there is no direct benefit from them.
> Something which can be useful in the real world right now. I hope that
> I am clear enough if not do not hesitate to ask me anything :).

Just take cellular automata as an example. This model belongs to ALife and
has a wide range of useful applications, e.g. Physical Computations
(Lattice gas methods for computational fluid dynamics), signal processing,
therotical computation models, modeling and simulation of economic,
ecologic and social problems or art (Langton's ant), etc..

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Dipl.-Inform. Hendrik Belitz
Central Laboratory of Electronics
Research Center Juelich