The emergence of replication in a digital evolution system using a secondary structure approach

Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 168-175

  Tangen, Uwe ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL CHEMISTRY MODELS; DIGITAL EVOLUTION; FOLDING MECHANISM; INSTRUCTION SET; MICROCONTROLLER-BASED; MICROPROCESSES; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; SELF-REPLICATIONS;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATA THEORY;

EID: 84874725692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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