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Evolving a Self-Repairing, Self-Regulating, French Flag Organism
Julian Francis Miller
Department of Electronics, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UKjfm@ohm.york.ac.uk
http://www.elec.york.ac.uk/intsys/users/jfm7/
Abstract. A method for evolving programs that construct multicellular structures (organisms) is described. The paper concentrates on the difficult problem of evolving a cell program that constructs a fixed size French flag. We obtain and analyze an organism that shows a remarkable ability to repair itself when subjected to severe damage. Its behaviour resembles the regenerative power of some living organisms.
LNCS 3102, p. 129 ff.
lncs@springer.de
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004