Erdur, Serkan, and Tunga Güngör. “An Investigation of Artificial Neural Network Architectures in Artificial Life Implementations.” In International 13th Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks , pp. 191-199. 2004.
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. In this paper, an artificially created world is defined and simulation results are presented. The proposed world is a complex system consisting of three types of agent: carnivorous, herbivorous, and plants. Agents live on a two-dimensional hypothetical world and have artificial neural network brains, which can learn over a life span and evolve over generations by genetic algorithms. Three senses, vision, smell, and hearing are implemented. A new version of Hebbian rule for short-term learning is defined. Each parameter was tested with numerous simulations and important guidelines were obtained that can direct the design of such artificial worlds.