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. We describe preliminary results from an application to coarse graining of cellular automata.
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@inproceedings(SS-ECAL07c, author = "Andrew Weeks and Susan Stepney and Fiona Polack", title = "Neutral Emergence and Coarse Graining", pages = "1131--1140", crossref = "ECAL07" ) @proceedings(ECAL07, title = "ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2007", booktitle = "ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2007", series = "LNAI", volume = 4648, publisher = "Springer", year = 2007 )