The best source for information is the proceedings of the Artificial Life conferences. The proceedings were edited by Christopher G. Langton and published by Addison-Wesley. Langton, Chris G., editor, "Artificial Life" (Proceedings of the First International Conference '87), Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-09356-1. Langton, C.G., Taylor, C., Farmer, J.D., and Rasmussen, S., editors, "Artificial Life II", Addison-Wesley, 1991. ISBN 0-201-52751-2. Langton, C.G., editor, "Artificial Life III", Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-62494-X. Animals to Animats Conferences: Jean-Arcady Meyer and Stewart W. Wilson, "From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (1990, Paris, France)", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991. 551 pages, $55, ISBN 0-262-63138-5. Jean-Arcady Meyer, Herbert L. Roitblat, and Stewart W. Wilson, editors, "From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993. 523 pages, $55, ISBN 0-262-63149-0. Francisco J. Varela and Paul Bourgine, editors, "Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems: Proceedings of the First European Conference on Artificial Life", Complex Adaptive Systems Series, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992. 515 pages, $55.00, ISBN 0-262-72019-1. Artificial Life: Levy, S., "Artificial Life", Pantheon, New York, 1992. ISBN 0-679-40774-X. [An excellent popularization] Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Aristid Lindenmayer, "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants", Springer-Verlag, 1990. 228 pages, ISBN 0-387-97297-8 hardcover ($40). Cellular Automata: Adamatzky, Andrew, "Identification of Cellular Automata", Taylor and Francis, London, 1994. ISBN 0-7484-0172-5. Forrest, S., editor, "Emergent Computation", MIT Press, 1991. J. D. Farmer, T. Toffoli, and S. Wolfram, "Cellular Automata", North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1984. Howard Gutowitz, "Cellular Automata: Theory and Experiment", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1991. ISBN 0-262-57086-6. Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus, "Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling", MIT Press, 1987. Andrew Wuensche and Mike Lesser, "The Global Dynamics of Cellular Automata", Addison-Wesley, 1992. IBSN 0-201-55740-1. See also [10] Genetic Algorithms.Go Back Up