Artificial chemistries

The field of Artificial Life (ALife) is now firmly established in the scientific world, but it has yet to achieve one of its original goals: an understanding of the emergence of life on Earth.

The new field of artificial chemistries draws from chemistry, biology, computer science, mathematics, and other disciplines to work toward that goal.

For if, as it has been argued, life emerged from primitive, prebiotic forms of self-organization, then studying models of chemical reaction systems could bring ALife closer to understanding the origins of life.

The results can be found both in the virtual world, in certain multiagent systems, and in the physical world, in new (artificial) reaction systems.

This book offers an introduction to the fundamental concepts of ACs, covering both theory and practical applications.