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ECAL 1999: Advances in Artificial Life pp 13–20Cite as

Testing for Emergence in Artificial Life

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The field of artificial life (Alife) is replete with documented instances of emergence, though debate still persists as to the meaning of this term. In the absence of a formal definition, researchers in the field would be well served by adopting an emergence certification mark which would garner approval from the Alife community. We propose an emergence test, consisting of three criteria—design, observation, and surprise—for conferring the emergence label.

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  1. Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    Edmund M. A. Ronald

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

    Moshe Sipper & Mathieu S. Capcarrère

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  1. Laboratory of Microprocessors and Interfaces (LAMI) Department of Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Dario Floreano , Jean-Daniel Nicoud  & Francesco Mondada ,  & 

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Ronald, E.M.A., Sipper, M., Capcarrère, M.S. (1999). Testing for Emergence in Artificial Life. In: Floreano, D., Nicoud, JD., Mondada, F. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1674. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48304-7_5

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