Simulating artificial organisms with qualitative physiology

Authors:
Simon Hartley;Marc Cavazza;Louis Bec;Jean-Luc Lugrin;Sean Crooks
Affiliations:
School of Computing, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom;School of Computing, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom;CYPRES, Marseille;School of Computing, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom;School of Computing, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
Venue:
ECAL'05 Proceedings of the 8th European conference on Advances in Artificial Life
Year:
2005

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Abstract

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.