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Experiments with the Universal Constructor in the DigiHive Environment

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The paper discusses the performance and limitations of the universal constructor embedded in the DigiHive environment and presents the results of two simulation experiments showing the possibility of workaround the limitations.

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  1. Sienkiewicz, R.: The digihive website, http://www.swarm.eti.pg.gda.pl/

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  1. Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland

    Rafal Sienkiewicz

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  1. School of Information Technology, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

    Kevin Korb

  2. School of Information Technology, Bond University, University Drive, Gold Coast, 4229, Queensland, Australia

    Marcus Randall

  3. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, 3112, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Tim Hendtlass

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Sienkiewicz, R. (2009). Experiments with the Universal Constructor in the DigiHive Environment. In: Korb, K., Randall, M., Hendtlass, T. (eds) Artificial Life: Borrowing from Biology. ACAL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5865. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10427-5_11

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