title: Self-evolution in a constructive binary string system.
abstract: We examine the qualitative dynamics of a catalytic self-organizing system of binary strings that is inspired by the chemical information processing metaphor. A string is interpreted in two different ways: either (a) as raw data or (b) as a machine that is able to process another string as data in order to produce a third one. This article focuses on the phenomena of evolution whose appearance is notable because no explicit mutation, recombination, or artificial selection operators are introduced. We call the system self-evolving because every variation is performed by the objects themselves in their machine form.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Dortmund, D 44221 Dortmund, Germany. dittrich@LS11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dittrich
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Banzhaf
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008954:Models, Biological; D008957:Models, Genetic; D009154:Mutation; D011995:Recombination, Genetic