Self-Evolution in a Constructive Binary String System

We examine the qualitative dynamics of a catalytic self-organizing reaction system of binary strings that is inspired by the chemical information processing metaphor. A string is interpreted in two di erent ways: either i as raw data or ii as a machine which is able to process another string as data in order to produce a third one. This paper focuses on the phenomena of evolution whose appearance is notable because no explicit mutation, recombinationorarti cialselection operators are introduced. We callthe system self-evolving because every variation is performed by the objects themselves in their machine form.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 1998
• Where: ALIFE
• Authors: Peter Dittrich, Wolfgang Banzhaf
• Keywords: ALIFE 1998, Catalytic Self-organizing Reaction, Information Processing Metaphor, Modeling And Simulation, Qualitative Dynamics