Publication details
WebAL Comes of Age: A Review of the First 21 Years of Artificial Life on the Web
Tim Taylor, Joshua E. Auerbach, Josh Bongard, Jeff Clune, Simon Hickinbotham, Charles Ofria, Mizuki Oka, Sebastian Risi, Kenneth O. Stanley, Jason Yosinski
2016
Abstract
We present a survey of the first 21 years of web-based Artificial Life ("WebAL") research and applications, broadly construed to include the many different ways in which Artificial Life and Web technologies might intersect. Our survey covers the period from 1994 — when the first WebAL work appeared — up to the present day, together with a brief discussion of relevant precursors. We examine recent projects, from the period 2010–2015, in greater detail in order to highlight the current state of the art. We follow the survey with a discussion of common themes and methodologies that can be observed in recent work and identify a number of likely directions for future work in this exciting area.
Reference
Taylor, T., Auerbach, J. E., Bongard, J., Clune, J., Hickinbotham, S., Ofria, C., … Yosinski, J. (2016). WebAL Comes of Age: A Review of the First 21 Years of Artificial Life on the Web. Artificial Life, 22(3), 364–407. https://doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00211
BibTeX
@article{taylor2016webal,
author = {Taylor, Tim and Auerbach, Joshua E. and Bongard, Josh and Clune, Jeff and Hickinbotham, Simon and Ofria, Charles and Oka, Mizuki and Risi, Sebastian and Stanley, Kenneth O. and Yosinski, Jason},
title = {{WebAL} Comes of Age: A Review of the First 21 Years of Artificial Life on the Web},
journal = {Artificial Life},
year = {2016},
publisher = {{MIT} Press Journals},
volume = {22},
number = {3},
pages = {364--407},
doi = {10.1162/artl_a_00211},
category = {journal},
keywords = {webal}
}