[14] Artificial Life and Cellular Automata

The best source for information is the proceedings of the Artificial
Life conferences. The proceedings were edited by Christopher G.
Langton and published by Addison-Wesley.

   Langton, Chris G., editor, "Artificial Life" (Proceedings of the First 
   International Conference '87), Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-09356-1.

   Langton, C.G., Taylor, C., Farmer, J.D., and Rasmussen, S., editors,
   "Artificial Life II", Addison-Wesley, 1991. ISBN 0-201-52751-2.

   Langton, C.G., editor, "Artificial Life III", Addison-Wesley, 1994.
   ISBN 0-201-62494-X. 

Animals to Animats Conferences:

   Jean-Arcady Meyer and Stewart W. Wilson, "From Animals to Animats:
   Proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation of
   Adaptive Behavior (1990, Paris, France)", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991.
   551 pages, $55, ISBN 0-262-63138-5.

   Jean-Arcady Meyer, Herbert L. Roitblat, and Stewart W. Wilson,
   editors, "From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of the Second
   International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior", MIT
   Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993. 523 pages, $55, ISBN 0-262-63149-0.

   Francisco J. Varela and Paul Bourgine, editors, "Toward a Practice of
   Autonomous Systems: Proceedings of the First European Conference on
   Artificial Life", Complex Adaptive Systems Series, MIT Press,
   Cambridge, MA, 1992. 515 pages, $55.00, ISBN 0-262-72019-1.

Artificial Life:

   Levy, S., "Artificial Life", Pantheon, New York, 1992. ISBN 0-679-40774-X.
   [An excellent popularization] 

   Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Aristid Lindenmayer, "The Algorithmic
   Beauty of Plants", Springer-Verlag, 1990. 228 pages, ISBN
   0-387-97297-8 hardcover ($40).

Cellular Automata:

   Adamatzky, Andrew, "Identification of Cellular Automata",
   Taylor and Francis, London, 1994. ISBN 0-7484-0172-5.

   Forrest, S., editor, "Emergent Computation", MIT Press, 1991.

   J. D. Farmer, T. Toffoli, and S. Wolfram, "Cellular Automata",
   North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1984.

   Howard Gutowitz, "Cellular Automata: Theory and Experiment",
   MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1991. ISBN 0-262-57086-6.

   Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus, "Cellular Automata Machines:
   A New Environment for Modeling", MIT Press, 1987.

   Andrew Wuensche and Mike Lesser, "The Global Dynamics of Cellular
   Automata", Addison-Wesley, 1992.  IBSN 0-201-55740-1.

See also [10] Genetic Algorithms.