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Reliable self-replicating machines in asynchronous cellular automata
Jia Lee1, Susumu Adachi, Ferdinand Peper
1Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8577, Japan. lijia@wslab.risk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Abstract:
We propose a self-replicating machine that is embedded in a two-dimensional asynchronous cellular automaton with von Neumann neighborhood. The machine dynamically encodes its shape into description signals, and despite the randomness of cell updating, it is able to successfully construct copies of itself according to the description signals. Self-replication on asynchronously updated cellular automata may find application in nanocomputers, where reconfigurability is an essential property, since it allows avoidance of defective parts and simplifies programming of such computers.
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