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An Embryonics Implementation of a Self-Replicating Universal Turing Machine

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Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES 2001)

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This paper describes a multicellular universal Turing machine implementation endowed with self-replication and self-repair capabilities. In this multicellular artificial organism every artificial cell contains a complete copy of the genome. The mapping of the universal Turing machine onto a multicellular array was made possible thanks to the introduction of a modified version of the W-machine1.

A W-machine [13] is like a Turing machine, save that its operation at each time step is guided not by a state-table but by an instruction from the following list: PRINT 0, PRINT 1, MOVE DOWN, MOVE UP, IF 1 THEN(n) ELSE (next), STOP.

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

    Hector Fabio Restrepo & Daniel Mange

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  1. University of Aizu, Tsuruga, Ikki-machi, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, 965-8580, Japan

    Yong Liu

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, 4-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano, 380-8553, Japan

    Kiyoshi Tanaka

  3. Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Science and Technology, Adv. Semiconductor Research Center, AIST Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8568, Japan

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  4. University of Tsukuba, Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan

    Moritoshi Yasunaga

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Restrepo, H.F., Mange, D. (2001). An Embryonics Implementation of a Self-Replicating Universal Turing Machine. In: Liu, Y., Tanaka, K., Iwata, M., Higuchi, T., Yasunaga, M. (eds) Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. ICES 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2210. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45443-8_7

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