@inproceedings{ALife12c,
  author = "Simon Hickinbotham and Adam Faulconbridge and Adam Nellis",
  abstract = "We use Artificial Chemistries (ACs) as a way of addressing problems in Artificial Life (ALife) and evolution, by considering Eigen's paradox - small replicators with poor fidelity can not encode sufficient information to build a replicator with improved fidelity. We describe three AC case studies for different periods in the early evolution of the earth. From these, we discuss more general properties that are useful for ACs to possess for evolution, and compare our properties to those described by other authors.
We do not present a resolution of Eigen's paradox; rather we demonstrate a way of thinking about AC in the context of early evolution. Eigen's paradox is one key issue in this period.
We use ACs as a model paradigm and from these we extract relevant properties that can be considered separately from the specific ACs that informed them; these properties can be used to inform design and analysis of future ACs.",
  title = "The Blind Watchmaker's Workshop: Three Artificial~Chemistries in the Context of Eigen's Paradox.",
  crossref = "ALIFE-XII"
}

@proceedings{ALIFE-XII,
  title = "ALife XII, Odense, Denmark, August 2010",
  booktitle = "ALife XII, Odense, Denmark, August 2010",
  publisher = "MIT Press",
  year = 2010
}