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Abstract State Machines
The Abstract State Machine (ASM) Project -- formerly known as the Evolving Algebras Project -- is an attempt to bridge the gap between formal models of computation and practical specification methods. Here you can find a description of this project.

Adaptive Computation
Find out about the adaptive computation research group at the University of New Mexico, with faculty lists, descriptions of research topics and a list of relevant links.

AlChemy Project: A Quick Introduction to the Algorithmic Chemistry Project
The AlChemy Project is concerned with the development of complex metabolisms in simple algorithmic environments. Here you can find related links, papers and software.

Algorithm Archive
This document is a collection of common computing algorithms and their implementations. It is intended to be a cookbook of popular algorithms, a discussion of how they work and a collection of useful implementations.

Artificial Life Games Homepage
The page contains information about games developed by means of artificial life techniques. You can also find links to artificial life demos and ALife sites in general.

Avida Artificial Life Group
The Avida group consists of researchers interested in those processes that make living systems appear alive. They use auto-adaptive genetic systems to make statements about evolution, adaptation and the emergence of complexity.

B-Tree Source Code for the Pick Operating System
Comprehensive site about b-tree-p, a collection of subroutines and programs that allow any of the data in your Pick files to be instantly located and displayed in any sort of order. With FAQs, source code and more.

Behavioral Evolution Simulations and Tutorials
This software is a collection of simulations that demonstrate concepts of the evolution of behavior. Download the distribution package here.

BioComp Systems, Inc.
Find out about this software development and consulting company, which does work with self-optimizing neural network software that automates the development of accurate predictive neural network models. You can try out their NeuroGenetic Optimizer demo.

Biotopia
Biotopia simulates a Darwinian ecosystem. Artificial life forms navigate through a sea of food and life cells used for reproduction. Here you can see many screen shots of this program and download a version that runs on DOS.

Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) Repository
A model for general-purpose parallel computation, enabling portable, scalable and architecture independent algorithms. This site has primers, tutorials, links and papers.

Cellular Programming
Find information on the evolution of parallel cellular machines. These are systems in which emergent computation occurs when global information-processing capabilities appear that are not explicitly represented in the system's elementary components.

Character Recognition by Feature Point Extraction
This paper explores a character recognition algorithm and tests it on two different fonts using a third font as a reference. The results are discussed and several improvements are suggested.

ChemoWeb: Chemometrics on the Web
Chemometrics can be divided into four categories: calibration, pattern recognition, signal processing and optimization/experimental design. Find descriptions of each of these areas, as well as MATLAB code demonstrating the techniques discussed.

Cognitive Computer Science Research Group
This research group, within the AI laboratory at U.C. San Diego, does research characterized by adaptive knowledge representations.

Complexity On-Line
Complexity On-line is a scientific information network about complex systems. You will find access to sites, publications (including the Complexity On-line Journal ) and other sources of interest.

Computational Decision Analysis
This is a Ph.D. thesis presenting the DELTA method for algorithmic decision making using imprecise information. The objective is to present a method for evaluating choices under uncertainty.

Doomsday Algorithm for Day of Week
The Doomsday algorithm is used to determine the day of the week (Sunday, Monday, etc.) given any date. It is a simple algorithm that you can do in your head. Learn the details at this site.

Echo Project, The
Echo is a simulation tool developed to investigate mechanisms that regulate diversity and information processing in systems comprised of many interacting agents, or complex adaptive systems. Download the software distribution for Unix workstations.

Encore: The Electronic Appendix to the Hitchhikers Guide to Evolutionary Computing
This is a compendium of more than 600 files on the art of evolutionary computation suitable for anyone interested in the field, particularly beginners.

Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at COGS
This page gives an overview of some of the work going on in COGS (School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences), and includes pointers to more detailed descriptions and relevant publications.

Evolutionary Design of Neural Architectures
A repository of Internet resources concerning genetic algorithms and neural networks.

Evolutionary Programming Society
The Evolutionary Programming Society was formed in 1991 to promote research in the areas of evolutionary computation and self-organizing systems. You can find the proceedings of the annual conferences on evolutionary programming since 1992.

EvoNet: The European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing
EvoNet supports communication and cooperation between Europeans doing research in the field of evolutionary computing. This site hosts membership information, workshop registration forms and relevant links.

Face Prints
This is an ongoing study examining perceptions of attractiveness and age, based on computer-modeled human faces and user input. You can see the current results of the experiment or take part in the study yourself.

FIG Online: Flexible Intelligence Group, L.L.C.
This company produces FlexTools for MATLAB, a range of product suites and services designed to build computationally intelligent systems using soft computing techniques.

Hitchhiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation
Here you can find answers to frequently asked questions about evolutionary computation. It is designed for those who are just beginning to read the comp.ai.genetic newsgroup.

IlliGAL: Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
Learn about the people doing research in genetic algorithms at the University of Illinois. You can find researcher profiles, a publication archive and links to other relevant Web sites.

InfoSpiders
InfoSpiders (a k a ARACHNID: Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing Heuristic Neighborhoods for Information Discover) is a computer model using endogenous fitness for information retrieval in large dynamical databases. A simulation demo is available here.

Intelligent Computer Systems Center
The mission of the Intelligent Computer Systems Center (ICSC) is to transfer the technology of advanced computing through collaborative projects, consultancy and education. Find out more about the center and the research going on here at this site.

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Java Gallery of Geometry Algorithms
This is a collection of Java applets designed to illustrate various geometric concepts, including Delaunay triangulation, edge matching, point filtering, line following and angle labeling.

LEDA: Library of Efficient Data Types and Algorithms
LEDA is a library of the data types and algorithms of combinatorial computing. You can find example programs, downloadable software and general information.

MbitiWorld: The Evolution Game
MbitiWorld 1.0 is an artificial life simulation program. It is a world populated by several hundreds of agents. Each agent has a neural network; sensors that inform it about the square in front; and effectors that allow it to move, mate and eat.

Memetic Algorithms
The memetic algorithm is a population-based approach for heuristic searches in optimization problems. It combines local search heuristics with crossover operators.

Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence
The Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI) has been involved in both basic and applied research in artificial intelligence since its inception in 1982. This page gives an overview of the research being done here.

Net-Life
Net-Life is a simulation of artificial life, with neural brains generated via slightly random techniques. Net-Life uses artificial neural nets and evolutionary algorithms to breed artificial organisms that are similar to single cell organisms.

NetQ
NetQ lets you question authors of articles in the area of complex adaptive systems, including evolutionary computation, adaptive behavior and artificial life.

Opsis: Teaching Binary Tree Algorithms
Opsis is a Java applet designed to teach binary search tree algorithms. It combines elements of programming, proof and animation to enhance the learning experience.

Pattern Matching Pointers
Addresses issues of searching and matching strings -- and more complicated patterns such as trees, regular expressions, graphs, point sets and arrays -- with lists of researchers in this area, conference announcements and links.

Postman's Sort, The
This article claims to describe a program that sorts an arbitrarily large number of records in less time than any algorithm based on comparison sorting.

Prague Stringology Club
This club is for people working in the field of stringology, which is the science of strings and sequences. The field also includes pattern matching, text algorithms, information retrieval and more.

Primordial Life Notebook
Primordial Life is an experiment in computer-based evolution. Watch biots (artificial life forms) evolve as they battle one another in order to survive. Experience life and death in a window or as a screen saver.

Primordial Soup
Primordial Soup is an artificial life program available for Unix systems. Organisms in the form of computer software loops live in a shared memory space (the soup) and self-reproduce and evolve, behaving in accordance with Darwinian evolution.

REDUCE: Computer Algebra System
REDUCE is an interactive program designed for general algebraic computations of interest to mathematicians, scientists and engineers. This algebraic manipulation program is available for a variety of systems.

Simulated Annealing Information
A compilation of references about and software to perform simulated annealing, including source code in C++, C and Ada. There is also an online interactive demonstration.

Simulated Annealing Technical Reports
A compilation of technical reports dealing with simulated annealing and related topics. Abstracts of many of these scholarly works are reproduced here.

Solving Rubik's Cube
This site deals with modeling the Rubik's Cube problem computationally and solving it use the Bestfast search algorithm and profile tables.

Sorting Algorithm Animation
Learn about five different sorting algorithms, with descriptions, pseudo-code and even animated Java applets that visually demonstrate each technique. The methods covered are insertion sort, shell sort, heap sort, radix sort and quick sort.

Sorting and Searching Algorithms: A Cookbook
This page contains a collection of sorting and searching algorithms. Each algorithm is described in easy-to-understand terms, without heavy use of calculus and probability theory.

SPHINcsX
This scientific paper develops a methodology to perform generalized zero-order 2- and 3-D shape optimizations utilizing a learning classifier system.

Surname to Soundex Conversion Program
The Soundex system is the means established by the National Archives to index U.S. censuses. It codes together surnames of the same and similar sounds, but of variant spellings. An interactive program featured here completes this conversion.

Surname to Soundex Converter
This program converts surnames to the Soundex codes used by the national archives to index the U.S. censuses from 1880 to 1920.

Syracuse Evolutionary and Neural Systems Exploration (SENSE) Research Group
Lists researchers at Syracuse University studying evolutionary algorithms and artificial neural networks.

Tierra Home Page
Learn about and download the Tierra C source code, a program that creates a virtual computer and its Darwinian operating system. The code's architecture has been designed in such a way that the executable machine codes are evolvable.

Ultrafast Parallel Algorithms and Reconfigurable Meshes
This page concerns the development of very fast parallel algorithms, ones faster than those available through normal programming techniques. Algorithms have been developed for problems in geometry, graph theory, arithmetic, sorting and image processing.

Ward Systems Group, Inc.
Provides neural network and genetic algorithm software and consulting for predicting, optimization, classification, scheduling, modeling, statistical analysis and financial forecasting.

Zooland: The Artificial Life Resource
Zooland is a collection of resources accessible via the Internet dealing with the study of artificial life. Here you can find hyperlinks labeled according to the type of information you can find at that particular site.

Date Modified:
Tuesday, July 03, 2001