abstract = "The aim of this project is to create a computational
environment that allows for the design/evolution of
programs with life-like behaviour. By life-like
behaviour we mean programs whose main aim is to exist
and reproduce within their environment, and exhibit
other essential signs of life: homeostasis &
adaptation, growth & open-ended evolution. In order to
give digital organisms a functionality of use to
humans, a program will also be able to carry out, and
autonomously improve upon, a human defined activity.
For many reasons, we have chosen to build a
computational environment (in emulation) and a new
redcode-like language, micro-Rouge, which runs in it.
This paper describes the concepts and instructions of
this new language and provides an example highlighting
some of its unusual characteristics.",
notes = "1 ECE Dept., Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve
Blvd. O., Montreal, QC, Canada H3G1M8 2 California
Evolution Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA 94134