Exploring Evolved Multicellular Life Histories in a Open-Ended Digital Evolution System

Exploring the Concept of Open-Ended Evolution

Extended Abstract The term open-ended evolution (“OEE”) is used by the ALife community to refer to the kind of long-term evolutionary dynamics observed in the biosphere. It is generally taken to refer to evolutionary systems which display a continual production of adaptively significant innovations. Furthermore, some authors use the term to imply a sustained increase in complexity and/or divers...

Prospects for Open-Ended Evolution in Artificial Life

Potential and Promise of Open-Ended Evolution in Artificial Life

Since Bedau et al. identified the simulation of open-ended evolution in digital life media as one of the key problems in the field of Artificial Life (Bedeau et al., 2000, Artificial Life 6, p.363), no attempt has convincingly solved the problem until this day. Creating open-ended evolution ultimately boils down to creating niches: A new evolutionary feature can only be retained if there is an ...

Open-Ended Artificial Evolution

Of all the issues discussed at Alife VII: Looking Forward, Looking Backward, the issue of whether it was possible to create an artificial life system that exhibits open-ended evolution of novelty is by far the biggest. Of the 14 open problems settled on as a result of debate at the conference, some 6 are directly, or indirectly related to this issue. Most people equate open-ended evolution with...

Reflecting on open-ended evolution

We describe a computationally reflective object-oriented architecture suitable for incorporating open-ended innovation and emergent entities into simulations. This allows emergent properties to be reified into objects. This requires modifying the model, and the metamodel, by incorporating novel classes and metaclasses dynamically. The classes and metaclasses are modified by including them in th...