Simulating Artificial Organisms with Qualitative Physiology

In this paper, we describe an approach to artificial life, which uses Qualitative Reasoning for the simulation of life within a 3D virtual environment. This system uses qualitative formalisms to describe both the physiology of a virtual creature and its environment. This approach has two main advant...

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Published inAdvances in Artificial Life pp. 540 - 550
Main Authors Hartley, Simon, Cavazza, Marc, Bec, Louis, Lugrin, Jean-Luc, Crooks, Sean
Format Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Springer
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Applied sciences
Artificial intelligence
Artificial Life
Computer science; control theory; systems
Exact sciences and technology
Model Fragment
Qualitative Reasoning
Virtual World
Vital Fluid
Artificial life
Qualitative reasoning
Physiology
Abstraction
Artificial intelligence
Virtual reality
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Summary:In this paper, we describe an approach to artificial life, which uses Qualitative Reasoning for the simulation of life within a 3D virtual environment. This system uses qualitative formalisms to describe both the physiology of a virtual creature and its environment. This approach has two main advantages: the possibility of representing integrated physiological functions at various levels of abstraction and the use of a common formalism for the simulation of internal (physiological) and external (environmental) processes. We illustrate this framework by revisiting early work in Artificial Life and providing these virtual life forms with a corresponding physiology, to obtain a complete living organism in virtual worlds.
ISBN:9783540288480
3540288481
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/11553090_55