title = "An evolving ontogenetic cellular system for better
adaptiveness",
journal = "Biosystems",
year = "2004",
volume = "76",
pages = "177--189",
number = "1-3",
abstract = "we present an original cellular system named Phuon.
The main motivation behind this project is to go beyond
classical cellular systems, such as cellular automata
(CA). CA often lack adaptability and turn out to be
very brittle in uncertain environment. The idea here is
to add ontogeny to cellularity, growth and development
being means of adaptation and thus robustness. However,
we do not wish to develop yet another cellular system
for the sake of it. What we are seeking in the long
term is a developmental system for problem solving.
This global aim enticed us into finding a way to map a
desired global behaviour of the system to the local
behaviour of a cell. Quite naturally a peculiar brand
of genetic programming was used for that purpose. The
results are still preliminary but in our view they
already validate some of the hypotheses behind this
work.",