The search for alien life is hard because we do not know what signatures are unique to life.
We show why complex molecules found in high abundance are universal biosignatures and …

Molecular assembly indices, which measure the number of unique sequential steps
theoretically required to construct a three-dimensional molecule from its constituent atomic …

The Integrity model proposes that the adaptive immune response defends, protects and
keeps vigilance over the unity of an organism. These functions conceptually rely on three …

The notion of information and complexity are important concepts in many scientific fields
such as molecular biology, evolutionary theory and exobiology. Many measures of these …

In this chapter, we discuss the conceptual developments needed to take a new look at the
nature of life, the origin of life, and how chemical systems can transition to evolutionary …

Existing image complexity metrics cannot distinguish meaningful content from noise. This
means that white noise images, which contain no meaningful information, are judged as …

Our study aims to compare the effects of direct mutation and graph-based mutation on
representations of music domain. We focus on short tunes from the Irish folk tradition …

We present a new image complexity metric. Existing complexity metrics cannot distinguish
meaningful content from noise, and give a high score to white noise images, which contain …

We investigate the application of the line-graph operator to one-dimensional spin models
with periodic boundary conditions. The spins (or interactions) in the original spin structure …

We propose a phase transition on the feasibility of efficient parallel assembly. By introducing
the parallel efficiency that measures how efficiently the parallel assembly works, the …