Automated Discovery of Self-Replicating Structures in Cellular Space Automata Models
| dc.contributor.author | Lohn, Jason D. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2004-05-31T21:05:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2004-05-31T21:05:51Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1996-08 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 1998-10-15 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis demonstrates for the first time that it is possible to automatically discover self-replicating structures in cellular space automata models rather than, as has been done in the past, to design them manually. Self-replication is defined as the process an entity undergoes in constructing a copy of itself. Von~Neumann was the first to investigate artificial self-replicating structures and did so in the context of cellular automata, a cellular space model consisting of numerous finite-state machines embedded in a regular tessellation. Interest in artificial self-replicating systems has increased in recent years due to potential applications in molecular-scale manufacturing, programming parallel computing systems, and digital hardware design, and also as part of the field of artificial life. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 2731851 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/postscript | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/468 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Tech Reports in Computer Science and Engineering | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Computer Science Department Technical Reports | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | UM Computer Science Department; CS-TR-3677 | en_US |
| dc.title | Automated Discovery of Self-Replicating Structures in Cellular Space Automata Models | en_US |
| dc.type | Technical Report | en_US |