© 1973 by British Computer Society
An evolutionary approach to the concept of randomness

1 The Plessey Company Limited, Plessey Radar Research Centre, West Leight, Havant, UK, 2 Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Brunel University, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, UK
The Von Mises and Kolmogorov definitions of randomness are discussed in terms of the complexity of binary sequences. An evolutionary approach is then described and some results presented.
Received March 1972.
* The Plessey Company Limited, Plessey Radar Research Centre, West Leight, Havant, Hampshire.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Brunel University, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex.