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In article <24659@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> tackett@ipld01.hac.com (Walter Alden Tackett) writes:
} In article <C0ICnz.o6@world.std.com> lains@world.std.com (Layne L Ainsworth) writes:
} 
} Larry Yaegar (sorry if I butchered the last name!) at apple (larryy@apple.com
} is his address if memory serves) has a wonderful simulation that runs on
} SGI machines.  It falls most squarely under the category of Artificial Life,
} since the evolving creatures are implicitly rewarded for survival and 
} reproduction (i.e., they must feed, defend themselves, and mate while others
} around them do the same) rather than being rewarded for an explicit externally
} imposed fitness function.  Different genotypes evolve, each with their own
} niche.  Most go extinct fairly rapidly, some flourish.  Very visual, this work
} will probably be published in the forthcoming Artificial Life III procedings
} and the software can be obtained from Larry Yaegar (I think).

I was part of a group that did a project very much like at GWU a while back,
though ours was quite non-visual.

"Survival of the Fittest".  G. Bailey, R. Demeo, H. Holz, and J. Revell.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Evolution and Chaos in Cognitive Processing
(IJCAI-91), August '91.

There is additional work, but it's not particularly related to the original
request.
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