3 papers
cs.NE2021
Increased Complexity and Fitness of Artificial Cells that Reproduce Using Spatially Distributed Asynchronous Parallel Processes
Lance R. Williams
Replication time is among the most important components of a bacterial cell's reproductive fitness. Paradoxically, larger cells replicate in less time than smaller cells despite th…
cs.NE2018
Towards Complex Artificial Life
Lance R. Williams
An object-oriented combinator chemistry was used to construct an artificial organism with a system architecture possessing characteristics necessary for organisms to evolve into mo…
cs.NE2015
Programs as Polypeptides
Lance R. Williams
We describe a visual programming language for defining behaviors manifested by reified actors in a 2D virtual world that can be compiled into programs comprised of sequences of com…