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Susan Stepney, Simon Hickinbotham.
Innovation, Variation, and Emergence in an Automata Chemistry

ALife 2020, Montreal, Canada (virtual), July 2020, pp.753-760. MIT Press, 2020

Abstract:

Open-ended novelty is one of the goals of ALife. We use a recent definition of open-endedness, stated in terms of system models and meta-models, to demonstrate how the Stringmol Automata Chemistry achieves variation, innovation and emergence in a replicator-parasite system. We also show how Stringmol's self-modifying code allows certain of these novelties to be exploited within the system itself, while others are only externally observed.

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@inproceedings(Stepney2020:ALife:innov,
  author = "Susan Stepney and Simon Hickinbotham",
  title = "Innovation, Variation, and Emergence in an Automata Chemistry",  
  pages = "753-760",
  doi = "10.1162/isal_a_00265",
  crossref = "ALife-2020"
)

@proceedings(ALife-2020,
  title = "ALife 2020, Montreal, Canada (virtual), July 2020",
  booktitle = "ALife 2020, Montreal, Canada (virtual), July 2020",
  publisher = "MIT Press",
  year = 2020
)