State Key Laboratory of ISN, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China 3 Department of Applied Mathematics, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China 4 Guangxi Key Laboratory of Wireless Wideband Communication and Signal Processing, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Gui...

1 In examining relationships between autopoiesis and anticipation in artificial life (Alife) systems it is demonstrated that anticipation may increase efficiency and viability in artificial autopoietic living systems. This paper, firstly, gives a review of the Varela et al [1974] automata algorithm of an autopoietic living cell. Some problems in this algorithm must be corrected. Secondly, a new...