artificial life.any info greatly appriciated

[fguihen]

im in 4th year computing and have to choose a project on a topic of which i have never looked at before. i was thinking something in the artificial intelligence area. more specifically , creating an artificial ecosystem and have "intelligent " creatures that can grow and evolve according to how well they do in the envrionment, speed, how good they are at gathering food etc. unfortunately , i have no idea how to get started. if anyone could point me in the direction of some good sources of info on artificial life, how to code artificial life, neural networks for dummies etc, i would be greatful. thank you

 

[jedbartlet]

Im a third year student doing final project on face recognition using neural networks. A book i found usefull for setting the groundwork on artificial intelligence, in particular neural nets was Artificial Intelligence Third edition by Patrick H. Winston. A much more detailed and practical book that ive just started on and has been recomended to me by several people is Practical Neural Network Recipes in C++ by Morgan Kafmann. Although this was published in 1993 so a newer more up to date edition may be available. Good luck!

 

[Merrion]

It would be remiss of me not to add a link to the Evolutionary Computing framework on GotDotNet...

 

[Joe Mamma]

do a web search for logistic equation. also search this site for the same term

 

[Shazbots]

I think this is something not to desimilar to what you are looking for.

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