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

Nikosaki wrote:

> Hym :),
> 
> I still do not get it, maybe because I don't have many knowledge in
> this fields but how is ALife connected with fields like signal
> processing and physical computation. I can imagine that it is possible
> to be used in economics, but I can not imagine exactly how.

An example for alife in image processing can be found here:

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dt/alife.html

Information about using cellular automata for physical computations can be
found here

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~harrism/cml/
 
> Do we have the same definition of ALife? For me ALife is an organism
> which is executing (living) in a computer environment. So in my
> opinion it is a program, script or genotype which can interact with
> the environment and eventually is developed with natural selection.

Since there is no coherent definition of life, there can also be no clear
definition of artificial life. But I fully agree with your generic
definition.

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