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Alyssa M. Adams, Celia Blanco, Valerii Chirkov, Kathrin Korte, Eric Medvet, Eleni Nisioti, Sidney Pontes-Filho, Susan Stepney, Paul Templier.
Transformational Novelty with an Automata Meta-Chemistry.

ALife 2026 Late-Breaking Abstracts, pp.96-98, 2026

Abstract:

Achieving open-endedness (OE), the continual production of novelty, in artificial systems is a goal of Artificial Life. Here we report on initial studies using an automata chemistry that can modify not only its code, but also its language. We build on the Physis system (ported from CPU to GPU for improved runtime), reproduce the original results, describe some new results, and suggest next steps.

late-breaking abstracts booklet (22MB pdf)

@inproceedings{Adams:2026-ALife-late,
  author = "Alyssa M. Adams and Celia Blanco and Valerii Chirkov and Kathrin Korte and Eric Medvet and 
    Eleni Nisioti and Sidney Pontes-Filho and Susan Stepney and Paul Templier",
  title = "Transformational Novelty with an Automata Meta-Chemistry",
  pages = 96-98,
  crossref = "ALife-2026-late"
}

@proceedings{ALife-2026-late,
  title = "ALife 2026 Late-Breaking Abstracts",
  booktitle = "ALife 2026 Late-Breaking Abstracts",
  editor = "Nehaniv, Chrystopher L and Lewis, Peter R and Nichele, Stefano
               and Čejková, Jitka and Salge, Christoph and Khan, Imran and
               Derets, Hanna",
  url = "https://github.com/emerging-researchers-alife/conference_proceedings/raw/refs/heads/main/ALIFE2026LateBreakingAbstracts.pdf",
  year = 2026
}