WebAL comes of age: a review of the first 21 years of artificial life on the web

摘要

Soon after computers became available to researchers, they were used to explore concepts like cellular automata or self-replicating machines and organisms, the most prominent being John H. Conway's Game of Life. The emergence of the World Wide Web in the 1990s gave rise to developments that combined the methods used in artificial life (AL) with the web infrastructure. This survey paper on WebAL covers the period from 1994 until 2015, with an emphasis on recent developments.