MATHEMATICAL STUDIES FOR SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS.
Abstract
Probably the most significant contribution to result from this study is the greater insight into the characteristics of an interesting self-organization system and a reasonable specification of the elementary properties of such systems. A second major contribution has been the detailed description of a universal self-organizing system in the form of a vertex-labelled graph; a direct relation has been established between one such graph and the behavioral description of a universal Turing machine. It is important to note that the resulting 'computing graph' was then extended to include the capability of self-reproduction, a far-reaching result in its own right, and particularly significant in that self-reproduction is accomplished through a process of self-organization. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0681143
Entities
People
- Amy L. Atlas
- Giorgio Ingargiola
- Morris Rubinoff
Organizations
- University of Pennsylvania