Wolfgang Banzhaf, Guillaume Beslon, Réne Doursat, Susan Stepney.
Open-Endedness: Definitions and Shortcuts.

The Second Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution, at ALife 2016, Cancun, Mexico, 2pp., 2016.

Introduction:

The open-endedness of a system is often defined as the continual production of novelty. Here we report on recent work by Banzhaf et al. (2016) that pins down this concept more rigorously. We define several types of novelty that a system may exhibit, and classify these as variation, innovation, and emergence. We also define an architecture suitable for building simulations of open-ended novelty-generating systems.

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  title = "Open-Endedness: Definitions and Shortcuts",
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