Neural Networks in an Artificial Life Perspective

                   Stefano Nolfi*~   Domenico Parisi*
   * Institute of Psychology, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
           ~ Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan

In the last few years several researchers within the Artificial Life and
Mobile Robotics  community  used  Artificial Neural Networks. Explicitly
viewing Neural Networks  in  an Artificial Life perspective has a number
of  consequences that make research on what we will call Artificial Life
Neural Networks (ALNNs)  rather different from traditional connectionist
research. The aim of the paper  is to make the differences between ALNNs
and "classical" neural networks explicit.