Complex Systems

Competition of Cellular Automata Rules Download PDF

David B. Brown
Department of Zoology, University of Toronto,
25 Harbord Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada

Abstract

Biological phenomena of competition and selection can be applied to cellular automata. Subrules compete in the presence of a master rule in a hierarchy and results of this competition are shown to be largely independent of the master rule choice.