Self-reproduction in cellular automata
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The search for other formal systems able to self-replicate, usually defined on a two-dimensional lattice, has shown simpler examples with a much smaller number of parts than those proposed initially by von Neumann.
“The search for other formal systems able to self-replicate, usually defined on a two-dimensional lattice, has shown simpler examples with a much smaller number of parts than those proposed initially by von Neumann [64,153].”
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- Authors
- Langton, C. G.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Corresponding author
- Langton, Christopher G.
- Venue
- Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1984-01
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 135-144
- ISSN
- 0167-2789 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2164199443
- Cited by
- 571
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 22 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 20
- FWCI
- 1.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena (publishedVersion)
- Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (7826016)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Cellular Automata and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › semigroups and automata theory
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
- Keywords
- self-replication, cellular automata, universal constructions, self-replicating machines
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