Artificial Evolution and the EVM Architecture

This article presents the concepts behind the Evolvable Virtual Machine architecture (EVM). We focus on the main features, its biological inspirations and the main characteristics of the implementation. EVM has been designed from ground up with the automated program generation in mind and utilises a modern stack-based virtual machine design. It uses auto-catalytic cycles and biological symbiosis as the underlying mechanisms for building complexity in a multi-agent systems in an autonomous fashion.

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