life inspired

"[...]a brief history of the Evolving Cellular Automata (EvCA) project. In the EvCA project, a genetic algorithm was used to evolve cellular automata to perform certain (nontrivial) computational tasks, in an effort to gain more insight into the question: 'How does evolution produce sophisticated emergent computation in systems composed of simple components limited to local interactions?' Full article @ Complexity - Wiley Online Library

Labels: cellular automata, emergent computation, evolutionary algorithms