Nature's spectacular inventiveness, reflected in the enormous diversity of form and function displayed by the biosphere, is a feature of life that distinguishes living most strongly from nonliving. It is, therefore, not surprising that this aspect of life should become a central focus of artificial life. We have known since Darwin that the diversity is produced dynamically, through the process of evolution; this has led life's creative productivity to be called Open-Ended Evolution (OEE) in the field. This article introduces the first of two special issues on current research on OEE and on the more general concept of open-endedness. Most of the papers presented in these special issues are elaborations of work presented at the Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution, held in Tokyo as part of the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life.

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开放式进化与开放式：开放式进化编辑介绍 I 特刊

大自然惊人的创造力反映在生物圈所表现出的形式和功能的巨大多样性中，是生命的一个特征，它最能区分有生命的和无生命的。因此，生命的这一方面应该成为人工生命的中心焦点也就不足为奇了。自达尔文以来，我们就知道多样性是通过进化过程动态产生的；这导致生命的创造性生产力在该领域被称为开放式进化 (OEE)。本文介绍了当前 OEE 研究和更一般的开放性概念的两个特殊问题中的第一个。这些特刊中发表的大部分论文都是对作为 2018 年人工生命会议的一部分在东京举行的开放式进化第三次研讨会上发表的工作的阐述。