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Continuous Evolution in the NK Treadmill Model NK跑步机模型的持续进化。

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Artificial Life Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1162/artl_a_00467

Priyanka Mehra;Arend Hintze

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Automating the Search for Artificial Life With Foundation Models. 使用基础模型自动搜索人工生命。

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Artificial Life Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1162/ARTL.a.8

Akarsh Kumar, Chris Lu, Louis Kirsch, Yujin Tang, Kenneth O Stanley, Phillip Isola, David Ha

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Behaviour Diversity in a Walking and Climbing Centipede-Like Virtual Creature 爬行蜈蚣类虚拟生物的行为多样性。

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Artificial Life Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1162/artl_a_00476

Emma Stensby Norstein;Kotaro Yasui;Takeshi Kano;Akio Ishiguro;Kyrre Glette

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A Word From the Editors. 编辑们的一句话。

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Artificial Life Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1162/ARTL.e.11

Alan Dorin, Susan Stepney

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Complexity, Artificial Life, and Artificial Intelligence 复杂性、人工生命和人工智能。

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Artificial Life Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1162/artl_a_00462

Carlos Gershenson

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Benefit Game 2.0: Alien Seaweed Swarms—Exploring the Interplay of Human Activity and Environmental Sustainability 利益游戏2.0：外星海藻群——探索人类活动与环境可持续性的相互作用。

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Artificial Life Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1162/artl_a_00468

Dan-Lu Fei;Zi-Wei Wu;Kang Zhang

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Flow-Lenia: Emergent Evolutionary Dynamics in Mass Conservative Continuous Cellular Automata Flow-Lenia：质量保守连续元胞自动机的涌现进化动力学。

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Artificial Life Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1162/artl_a_00471

Erwan Plantec;Gautier Hamon;Mayalen Etcheverry;Bert Wang-Chak Chan;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Clément Moulin-Frier

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Of Typewriters and PCs: How the Complication of Computers Limits Us and What to Do About It 《关于打字机和个人电脑：电脑的复杂性如何限制了我们，我们该怎么办》

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Artificial Life Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1162/artl_a_00472

Federico Pigozzi

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Editorial Introduction to the 2023 Conference on Artificial Life Special Issue 2023年人工生命会议特刊编辑导言。

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Artificial Life Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1162/artl_e_00474

Hiroyuki Iizuka;Keisuke Suzuki;Reiji Suzuki;Eduardo J. Izquierdo;Manuel Baltieri

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Network Bottlenecks and Task Structure Control the Evolution of Interpretable Learning Rules in a Foraging Agent 网络瓶颈和任务结构控制着觅食机器人可解释学习规则的演化

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Artificial Life Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1162/artl_a_00458

Emmanouil Giannakakis;Sina Khajehabdollahi;Anna Levina

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