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 Artificial Life

 at

 Indiana University

 


Artificial Life, agent-based modeling, complex systems, biocomplexity, ontogenetics, network topology and dynamics, and related disciplines play a strong part in the research directions and interests of many faculty members at Indiana University.  Research in these areas is taking place in the School of Informatics, the Cognitive Science Program, the Physics department, and other academic units.  Here are a few of the faculty involved in this discipline, with links to their home pages and projects.

Faculty currently engaged in related research:

 

Alessandro Flammini

Assistant Professor of Informatics

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics

Affiliated Researcher, Biocomplexity Center

     I400/I590, Complex Systems: The Simplicity of Complexity

 

Michael Gasser

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cognitive Science

    Salsa, System using Artificial Life to Study Adaptation

 

James Glazier

Director, Biocomplexity Institute

Adjunct Professor of Informatics

 

Rob Goldstone

Professor of Psychology, Program in Cognitive Science

Director, Percepts and Concepts Laboratory

    Software for demonstrating complex adaptive systems

 

Norbert Herber

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Telecommunications

PhD Candidate, Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, England

    PSO[1], A musical composition using Particle Swarm Optimization

                                     

Marco Janssen

Visiting Assistant Professor of Informatics

    Rule changing in human decision making

    Consumat”, a multi-agent simulation of the environmental impact of consumer behaviors

    I400/I590, Games and Gossip

 

Filippo Menczer

Associate Professor of Informatics

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics

Core Faculty, Cognitive Science

    LEE, Latent Energy Environments

    NaN, Networks and Agents Network

 

Luis Rocha

Associate Professor of Informatics

Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science

Core Faculty, Cognitive Science

    Evolutionary Systems & Artificial Life resources, including lecture notes on possibly the first ever course on Artificial Life

    Paper from a special issue of Artificial Life, on evolutionary robotics and embodied cognition

    Current research projects, including RNA editing, evolving Cellular Automata, and development in an ALife setting

 

Alessandro Vespignani

Professor of Informatics

Adjunct Professor of Physics

Core Faculty, Cognitive Science

Affiliated Faculty, Biocomplexity Center

     I400/I590, Complex Systems: The Simplicity of Complexity

 

Dana Vrajitoru

Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Sciences (IUSB)

Director, Intelligent Systems Laboratory

 

Larry Yaeger

Professor of Informatics

Core Faculty, Cognitive Science

    Polyworld, a computational ecology evolving neural architectures

     I400/I590, Artificial Life as an approach to Artificial Intelligence

 

Faculty with past experience or interest in related research:

 

Eli Blevis

Assistant Professor of Informatics

 

Santiago Schnell

Assistant Professor of Informatics

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences

Associate Director, Biocomplexity Institute

 

Thanks to Karl Sims, for use of the evolved artwork.