Generating open-ended (OE) systems is a major and as yet unachieved goal of ALife research. Here I discuss aspects of defining, modelling, and measuring OE. I apply a simple model of OE to itself, thereby expanding the concept, to demonstrate how truly open and vast open-endedness is.
@inproceedings(Stepney:2021:oee4, author = "Susan Stepney", title = "Modelling and measuring open-endedness", crossref = "OEE4-2021" ) @proceedings(OEE4-2021, title = "OEE4 workshop,at ALife 2021, Prague, Czech Republic (online), July 2021", booktitle = "OEE4 workshop,at ALife 2021, Prague, Czech Republic (online), July 2021", url = "http://workshops.alife.org/oee4/", year = 2021 )