Spontaneous formation of proto-cells in an universal artificial chemistry on a planar graph

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2159, Issue , 2001, Pages 206-215

  Di Fenizio, Pietro Speroni ^a   Dittrich, Peter ^a   Banzhaf, Wolfgang ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; MOLECULES;

ARTIFICIAL CHEMISTRIES; AUTOPOIETIC; GRAPH STRUCTURES; PLANAR GRAPH; SPONTANEOUS FORMATION;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 84949812715     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44811-x_22     Document Type: Article

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