We consider models of emergence, adding downward causation to conventional models where causation permeates from low level elements to high-level behaviour. We describe an architecture and prototype simulation medium for tagging and modelling emergent features in CA-like systems. This is part of ongoing work on engineering emergence.
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@inproceedings(SS-ECAL05a, author = "Fiona Polack and Susan Stepney and Heather Turner and Peter Welch and Fred Barnes", title = "An architecture for modelling emergence in {CA}-like systems", pages = "433--442", crossref = "ECAL05" ) @proceedings(ECAL05, title = "Advances in Artificial Life: ECAL 2005, Canterbury, UK, September 2005", booktitle = "Advances in Artificial Life: ECAL 2005, Canterbury, UK, September 2005", editor = "Mathieu S. Capcarrere and Alex A. Freitas and Peter J. Bentley and Colin G. Johnson and Jonathan Timmis", series = "LNAI", volume = 3630, publisher = "Springer", year = 2005 )