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ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Simulation of the Evolution of Aging: Effects of Aggression and Kin-Recognition
Current biological theory has no commonly accepted view on the phenomenon of aging. On the one hand it is considered as an inescapable degradation immanent to complex biological sy...
Svetlana Krivenko, Mikhail S. Burtsev
ISMB
1993
13 years 11 months ago
Minimizing Complexity in Cellular Automata Models of Self-Replication
Understanding self-replication from an information processing perspective is important because, amongother things, it can shed light on molecular mechanismsof biological reproduct...
James A. Reggia, Hui-Hsien Chou, Steven L. Armentr...
IWANN
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Characterizing Self-developing Biological Neural Networks: A First Step Towards Their Application to Computing Systems
Carbon nanotubes are often seen as the only alternative technology to silicon transistors. While they are the most likely short-term alternative, other longer-term alternatives sho...
Hugues Berry, Olivier Temam
RECOMB
1999
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Evolution of metabolisms: a new method for the comparison of metabolic pathways
The abundance of information provided by completely sequenced genomes de nes a starting point for new insights in the multilevel organization of organisms and their evolution. At ...
Christian V. Forst, Klaus Schulten
ALIFE
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Natural Selection in Relation to Complexity
, reproductive value, soft selectionAbstract Structural complexity characterizes our representations of dissipative structures. As a mechanistic concept, when referred to natural s...
Stanley N. Salthe