Introduction to artificial life / Christoph Adami.

New York : Springer, [1998], ©1998.

xviii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 computer laser optical disc (4 3/4 in.)

Copy 1 Donor: Donor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Flavors of artificial life -- Artificial chemistry and self-replicating code -- Introduction to information theory -- Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics -- Complexity of simple living systems -- Self-organization to criticality -- Percolation -- Fitness landscapes -- Experiments with avida -- Propagation of information -- Adaptive learning at the error threshold -- The avida user's manual.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-360) and index.