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Artificial Life

Mark A. Bedau, Editor
Fall 2000, Vol. 6, No. 4, Pages 363-376
(doi: 10.1162/106454600300103683)
© 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Open Problems in Artificial Life
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Mark A. Bedau
Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., Portland, OR 97202, USA, mab@reed.edu
John S. McCaskill
German National Research Center for Information Technology, Schloss, Birlinghoven, D-53754 Germany, mccaskill@gmd.de
Norman H. Packard
Prediction Company, 236 Montezuma St., Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA, n@predict.com
Steen Rasmussen
Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS-D450, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA, steen@lanl.gov
Chris Adami
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, adami@krl.caltech.edu
David G. Green
School of Environmental and Information Science, Charles Stuart University, Albury NSW 2640 Australia, dgreen@life.csu.edu.au
Takashi Ikegami
Institute of Physics, The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153 Japan, ikeg@sacral.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Kunihiko Kaneko
Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153 Japan, kaneko@complex.c.utokyo.ac.jp
Thomas S. Ray
Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA, tray@ou.edu
Abstract

This article lists fourteen open problems in artificial life, each of which is a grand challenge requiring a major advance on a fundamental issue for its solution. Each problem is briefly explained, and, where deemed helpful, some promising paths to its solution are indicated.