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Fiona Polack, Susan Stepney, Heather Turner, Peter Welch, Fred Barnes.
An architecture for modelling emergence in CA-like systems.

In Mathieu S. Capcarrere, Alex A. Freitas, Peter J. Bentley, Colin G. Johnson, Jonathan Timmis, editors. Advances in Artificial Life: ECAL 2005, Canterbury, UK, September 2005 . LNAI 3630:433-442. Springer, 2005

Abstract:

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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