What is a Parasite? Defining reaction and network properties in an open ended automata chemistry

Susan Stepney; Simon John Hickinbotham

doi:10.1162/isal_a_00413

What is a Parasite? Defining reaction and network properties in an open ended automata chemistry

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Abstract

Open-ended novelty is one of the goals of ALife. This provides challenges for analysis as the system evolves. We provide definitions for several emergent properties, such as parasitism and hypercycles, observed to emerge in an RNA world configuration of the Stringmol automata chemistry, and show how these can simultaneously be mathematically simple, capture the complexity of the processes, and be readily implementable.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Artificial Life Conference Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication	The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life
Publisher	MIT Press
Pages	598-606
Number of pages	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00413
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 19 Jul 2021
Event	ALife 2021, Prague, Czech Republic (virtual), July 2021 - Duration: 19 Jul 2021 → 23 Jul 2021

Conference

Conference	ALife 2021, Prague, Czech Republic (virtual), July 2021
Abbreviated title	ALife 2021
Period	19/07/21 → 23/07/21

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What is a Parasite? Defining reaction and network properties in an open ended automata chemistry
© 2021 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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EvoEvo
Stepney, S. (Principal investigator)
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
1/11/13 → 30/10/16
Project: Research project (funded) › Research
PLAZZMID: Evolutionary algorithms from bacterial
Stepney, S. (Principal investigator)
EPSRC
2/06/08 → 30/11/11
Project: Research project (funded) › Research

Simulation and experiment data for the paper "On the Open-Endendness of Detecting Open-Endedness"
Hickinbotham, S. J. (Creator) & Stepney, S. (Creator), University of York, 21 Jul 2022
DOI: 10.15124/88a8bad0-b23f-4afc-80a6-77e6358b7a8f
Dataset
Simulation and experiment data for the paper "Nothing makes sense in evolution except in the light of parasites"
Hickinbotham, S. J. (Creator), Stepney, S. (Contributor) & Hogeweg, P. (Contributor), University of York, 10 Feb 2021
DOI: 10.15124/305dfdb6-9483-4c5b-8a01-c030570b9c31
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What is a Parasite? Defining reaction and network properties in an open ended automata chemistry

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PLAZZMID: Evolutionary algorithms from bacterial

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Simulation and experiment data for the paper "On the Open-Endendness of Detecting Open-Endedness"

Simulation and experiment data for the paper "Nothing makes sense in evolution except in the light of parasites"

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