Webal Comes Of Age: A Review Of The First 21 Years Of Artificial Life On The Web

Keywords

Crowdfunding; Crowdsourcing; HTML5; Open science; Public outreach; Web technologies; WebAL

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 20102015, 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.

Publication Date

8-1-2016

Publication Title

Artificial Life

Volume

22

Issue

3

Number of Pages

364-407

Document Type

Editorial Material

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_a_00211

Socpus ID

84982245292 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84982245292

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