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1 claim from 1 paper

  1. Computer Science › Cellular Automata and Applications

    Self-Protection and Diversity in Self-Replicating Cellular Automata

    Sayama · Artificial Life · 2004

    The paper adds self-protection to a cellular-automaton evolutionary system called the evoloop, to see whether it helps create and maintain diversity in the population.

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    1. Supported · 71%In simulations, three self-protection mechanisms appear to help keep population diversity, most clearly when protection is moderate and spares both attacker and attacked.“Simulation results imply a positive effect of those mechanisms on diversity maintenance, especially when the self-protection is moderate so that it conserves both the attacker and the attacked.”

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