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The purpose of this thesis is the development of a desktop simulation of artificial ecosystems emphasizing on the interactions between organisms of different species, as well as its use for researching possible scenarios of cooperation and competition between species. The reader is introduced to Artificial Life along with some related applications and some toolkits available to develop one. Then “ENNTera”, the application developed in this thesis, is analyzed in detail in the same way as the tools used for creating it. FInally, results of some experiments are presented and examined thoroughly giving the reader an opportunity to further understand the use and potential of evolutionary algorithms as a training method of neural networks.