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Andrew Weeks, Susan Stepney, Fiona A. C. Polack.
Neutral Emergence: a proposal.

Symposium on Complex Systems Engineering, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA, 11-12 January 2007

Abstract:

In this position paper, we introduce the concept of neutral emergence (defined by analogy to an information theoretic view of neutral evolution), and discuss how it might be used in the engineering of robust emergent systems.

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@inproceedings(SS-RAND07,
  author = "Andrew Weeks and Susan Stepney and Fiona A. C. Polack",
  title = "Neutral Emergence: a proposal",
  booktitle = "Symposium on Complex Systems Engineering, RAND Corporation,
         Santa Monica, CA, USA, 11-12 January 2007 ",
  year = 2007
)