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Fault-Tolerant Structures: Towards Robust Self-Replication in a Probabilistic Environment

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Self-replicating structures in cellular automata have been extensively studied in the past as models of Artificial Life. However, CAs, unlike the biological cellular model, are very brittle: any faulty cell usually leads to the complete destruction of any emerging structures. In this paper, we propose a method, inspired by error-correcting-code theory, to develop fault-resistant rules at, almost, no extra cost. We then propose fault-tolerant substructures necessary to future fault-tolerant self-replicating structures.

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  1. Logic Systems Laboratory, Lausanne Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-1015, INN-Ecublens

    Daniel C. Bünzli & Mathieu S. Capcarrere

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  1. Faculty of Philosophy and Science Institute of Computer Science, Silesian University, 74601, Opava, Czech Republic

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Bünzli, D.C., Capcarrere, M.S. (2001). Fault-Tolerant Structures: Towards Robust Self-Replication in a Probabilistic Environment. In: Kelemen, J., Sosík, P. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2159. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44811-X_9

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