Abstract: MICRORAM is a simulation model in which a colony of bacteria evolves inside an artificial world. The model has the flavor of the classical models of the decades of the 80s and 90s in which artificial life was inspired by microbiology. We show how a population of ‘bacterial’ agents is able to adapt to environmental changes and survive to the attack from an external agent simulated with an ‘antibiotic’. The conclusion is that many ideas from the 80s and 90s are still valid, and it is possible to design and simulate agents inspired by natural ‘bacterial colonies’, with potential applications in bacterial and natural computing.

Keywords: artificial life worlds, agent based modeling, bacterial genetic algorithm, conjugation operator.

ACM Classification Keywords: I.6 Simulation and Modeling

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MICRORAM: A SIMULATION MODEL OF A COLONY OF BACTERIA EVOLVING INSIDE AN ARTIFICIAL WORLD

Daniel Thai Dam, Rafael Lahoz-Beltra?

http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol21/ijita21-04-p04.pdf