arco 0.3.0

Automated Research into Computational Ontologies — a platform for discovering the conditions under which computation emerges
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# ARCO

**Automated Research into Computational Ontologies**

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A computational science platform for discovering the conditions under which computation, memory, and learning emerge in arbitrary information systems.

## What ARCO Does

ARCO asks a different question than most computer science: not "what can a given computational model compute?" but "what computational models are possible, and why do they emerge?"

It formalizes this through **Information Universes** — 6-tuples of (state space, transformations, observations, resources, invariants, schedule) — and measures emergent computation via shuffle-corrected normalized mutual information calibrated against destructive null distributions.

## Installation

### As a library

Add to your `Cargo.toml`:

```toml
[dependencies]
arco = "0.3"
```

### From source

```bash
git clone https://github.com/kvernet/arco.git
cd arco
cargo build --release
```

Requires Rust 1.85+.

See [`examples/`](https://github.com/kvernet/arco/tree/main/examples) for more usage patterns.

## Documentation

- [Web Page](https://kvernet.com/arco) — the web page
- [Mathematical Constitution](https://github.com/kvernet/arco/blob/main/docs/constitution.md) — the formal specification
- [API documentation](https://docs.rs/arco) — rustdoc for the latest release
- [Examples](https://github.com/kvernet/arco/tree/main/examples) — runnable usage examples

## Python Reference

The Python reference implementation that first validated the methodology is available at [arco-python](https://github.com/kvernet/arco-python).

## License

MIT