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Is it the right ansatz?

D Gross and B McMullin

Artificial Life, 7(4):182-196, October 2002.

Abstract

This article is a response to Rasmussen et al[Artificial Life, 7, 329-350], in which the authors suggest that, within a particular simulation "framework", there is a tight correspondence between the complexity of the primitive objects and the emergence of dynamical hierarchies. As an example they report a two-dimensional artificial chemistry that supports the spontaneous emergence of micellar structures, which they classify as third-order structures. We report in this article that essentially comparable phenomena can be produced with relatively simpler primitive objects. We also question the order classification of the micellar structures.

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Bibtex Record

@article{2687,
author = {D Gross and B McMullin},
title = {Is it the right ansatz?},
month = {October},
year = {2002},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2002/2687},
    publication_type = {article},
    submission_id = {18934_1206626900},
    other_year = {2002},
    ISSN = {1064-5462},
    journal = {Artificial Life},
    volume = {7},
    number = {4},
    publisher = {MIT Press},
}

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