Zamin Environment: Review and Comparison

Zamin, is a general purpose artificial environment suitable for cognitive studies. This environment, which presents high-level agents in a rather complex environment, has been successfully used as a test bed for some AI researches, like cooperative learning. Although it still has some deficiencies, it has many useful features and in addition, it can be enhanced with some proposed features to cover more capabilities. We have prepare a survey on some recent researches in the area of Artificial Life to show the advantages of this environment in comparison with nowadays special purpose as well as general purpose simulated world test-beds. In addition we have tried to highlight its disadvantages that may be fixed by researchers that are interested in this subject. Source code and documentation of both versions of Zamin (with normal as well as fuzzy learners) are publicly available on the web. Key-Words: Artificial life, Case-based Reasoning, Fuzzy decision making, Immerging behavior, Genetic evolution.