Ramifying feedback networks, cross-scale interactions, and emergent quasi individuals in Conway's game of life

Artificial Life

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 351-375

  Gotts, Nicholas M ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Cross scale interaction; Emergence; Feedback network

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

EMERGENCE; FEEDBACK NETWORKS; GAME OF LIFE; NATURAL SELECTION; REAL-WORLD; SCALE INTERACTIONS; STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENT;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GAME; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; LIFE; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; LIFE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 67650165230     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/artl.2009.Gotts.009     Document Type: Article

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