Defining and simulating open-ended novelty: requirements, guidelines, and challenges

Wolfgang Banzhaf, Bert Baumgaertner, Guillaume Beslon, René Doursat, James A. Foster, Barry McMullin, Vinicius Veloso de Melo, Thomas Miconi, Lee Spector, Susan Stepney, Roger White
2016 Theory in biosciences  
The open-endedness of a system is often defined as a continual production of novelty. Here we pin down this concept more fully by defining several types of novelty that a system may exhibit, classified as variation, innovation, and emergence. We then provide a meta-model for including levels of structure in a system's model. From there, we define an architecture suitable for building simulations of open-ended novelty-generating systems and discuss how previously proposed systems fit into this
more » ... amework. We discuss the design principles applicable to those systems and close with some challenges for the community.
doi:10.1007/s12064-016-0229-7 pmid:27194550 fatcat:j6fsqwd3tvd3hnkicfrq6a4aiy