%0 Conference Paper %1 standish:2004:ALwks %A Standish, Russell K. %B Workshop and Tutorial Proceedings Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems(Alife XI) %C Boston, Massachusetts %D 2004 %E Bedau, Mark %E Husbands, Phil %E Hutton, Tim %E Kumar, Sanjeev %E Sizuki, Hideaki %K algorithms, alife, entropy gatherers, genetic parsimony pressure programming, %P 51--55 %T The influence of parsimony and randomness on complexity growth in Tierra %U http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks/docs/ps/random-tierra-complexity.ps.gz %X junk SlicePow 0.9 to 1. Algorithms can only destroy information. Total complexity of the Tierra system is bounded by the initial complexity, implying that the individual complexity is bounded.

@inproceedings{standish:2004:ALwks, abstract = {junk SlicePow 0.9 to 1. Algorithms can only destroy information. Total complexity of the Tierra system is bounded by the initial complexity, implying that the individual complexity is bounded.}, added-at = {2008-06-19T17:46:40.000+0200}, address = {Boston, Massachusetts}, author = {Standish, Russell K.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24ee52631afa6875ee3689110f2a0ef73/brazovayeye}, booktitle = {Workshop and Tutorial Proceedings Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems(Alife {XI})}, editor = {Bedau, Mark and Husbands, Phil and Hutton, Tim and Kumar, Sanjeev and Sizuki, Hideaki}, interhash = {897fc9f494485712d6cea40abe110a6f}, intrahash = {4ee52631afa6875ee3689110f2a0ef73}, keywords = {algorithms, alife, entropy gatherers, genetic parsimony pressure programming,}, month = {12 September}, note = {Artificial Chemistry and its applications workshop}, notes = {http://www.alife9.org/ ALIFE9 Tierra CPU shared time slices l**SlicePow -> control parsimony pressure. 1 (no parsimony pressure) rapid growth in l fill memory, so cannot create copy, so simulation stops (soup dies). p51 {"}organisms get longer, their complexity (Li+Vitani,1997) shows no sign of increase at all. Their length comes from adding {"}junk{"} into their genomes{"}.Quotes Douglas Adams HHGG:-( Random data sources http://www.lavarnd.org/download/index.html???? 30 bS^{-1} HArdware Volatile Entropy Gathering and Expansion http://www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor/HAVEGE.html Code/algorithm for complexity of Tierra organism. HAVEGE did _not_ produce much more complex organisms than conventional pseudo random number generator (PRNG). But took less time. Why??? Setting of SlicePow crucial, most complexity at 0.95-0.96. BUT higher than {"}ancestral organism 0080aaa{"}}, pages = {51--55}, timestamp = {2008-06-19T17:52:15.000+0200}, title = {The influence of parsimony and randomness on complexity growth in Tierra}, url = {http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks/docs/ps/random-tierra-complexity.ps.gz}, year = 2004 }