Artificial Life is a peer-reviewed

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 scientific journal

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 that covers the study of man-made systems that exhibit the behavioral characteristics of natural living systems. Its articles cover system synthesis in software

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, hardware

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, and wetware

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. Artificial Life was established in 1993 and is the official journal of the International Society of Artificial Life. It is published online and in hard copy by the MIT Press

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Artificial Life is abstracted and indexed in Academic Search

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, Referativny Zhurnal

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, and The Zoological Record

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