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Heather R. Turner, Susan Stepney, Fiona A. C. Polack.
A simulation environment for emergent properties (extended abstract).

ECCS 2005: European Conference on Complex Systems, Paris, France, 14-18 November 2005

Abstract:

We propose a multi-layer architecture for simulating emergent properties. This is implemented as a form of cellular automaton at the lowest layer, with mobile processes to represent objects at multiple upper layers. This architecture supports multiple levels of emergence .

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@inproceedings(SS-ECCS05,
  author = "Heather R. Turner and Susan Stepney and Fiona A. C. Polack",
  title = "A simulation environment for emergent properties (extended abstract)",
  crossref = "ECCS-05"  
)

@proceedings(ECCS-05,
  title = "ECCS 2005: European Conference on Complex Systems,
           Paris, France, November 2005",
  booktitle = "ECCS 2005: European Conference on Complex Systems,
           Paris, France, November 2005",
  year = 2005
)