Susan Stepney and Guillaume Beslon.
Open-Endedness: Definitions and Shortcuts.

2nd EvoEvo Workshop, CCS 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 6pp., 2016

Abstract:

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. [Theory in Biosciences, 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.

@inproceedings(Stepney-CCS-2016,
  author = "Susan Stepney and Guillaume Beslon",
  title = "Open-Endedness: Definitions and Shortcuts",
  pages = "6pp",          
  crossref = "EvoEvo2-2016"
)

@proceedings(EvoEvo2-2016,
  title = "2nd EvoEvo Workshop, CCS 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands",
  booktitle = "2nd EvoEvo Workshop, CCS 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands",
  year = 2016
)