Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

1995

Subjects

Parallel processing (Electronic computers), Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing, Adaptive computing systems, Cellular automata

Abstract

A simple evolutionary process can discover sophisticated methods for emergent information processing in decentralized spatially-extended systems. The mechanisms underlying the resulting emergent computation are explicated by a novel technique for analyzing particle-based logic embedded in pattern-forming systems. Understanding how globally-coordinated computation can emerge in evolution is relevant both for the scientific understanding of natural information processing and for engineering new forms of parallel computing systems.

Description

SFI Technical Report 94-03-012. Final version appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 92.23 (1995): 10742-10746.

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10198

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