Overview
- Advances hot and widely popular topics of cellular automata, unconventional computing, gliders and solitons and non-linear dynamics
- Explains complex concepts and models in very simple basic terms, which does not require substantial specialist training
- Lavishly illustrated with visually attractive examples of cellular automaton configurations, which will appeal not only to scientists but also to artists and general public
Part of the book series: Emergence, Complexity and Computation (ECC, volume 1)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Phenomenology and Localisations
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Population Dynamics
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About this book
Reaction-diffusion and excitable media are amongst most intriguing substrates. Despite apparent simplicity of the physical processes involved the media exhibit a wide range of amazing patterns: from target and spiral waves to travelling localisations and stationary breathing patterns. These media are at the heart of most natural processes, including morphogenesis of living beings, geological formations, nervous and muscular activity, and socio-economic developments.
This book explores a minimalist paradigm of studying reaction-diffusion and excitable media using locally-connected networks of finite-state machines: cellular automata and automata on proximity graphs. Cellular automata are marvellous objects per se because they show us how to generate and manage complexity using very simple rules of dynamical transitions. When combined with the reaction-diffusion paradigm the cellular automata become an essential user-friendly tool for modelling natural systems and designing future and emergent computing architectures.
The book brings together hot topics of non-linear sciences, complexity, and future and emergent computing. It shows how to discover propagating localisation and perform computation with them in very simple two-dimensional automaton models. Paradigms, models and implementations presented in the book strengthen the theoretical foundations in the area for future and emergent computing and lay key stones towards physical embodied information processing systems.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This book will attract a wide variety of readers interested in unconventional computing. To a great extent, the continuous keen interest in cellular automata is sustained by speculation that it could effectively reveal the fundamental mechanism of nature.” (Simon Berkovich, Computing Reviews, May, 2013)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reaction-Diffusion Automata: Phenomenology, Localisations, Computation
Authors: Andrew Adamatzky
Series Title: Emergence, Complexity and Computation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31078-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-31077-5Published: 11 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43572-0Published: 15 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-31078-2Published: 14 September 2012
Series ISSN: 2194-7287
Series E-ISSN: 2194-7295
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 330
Topics: Complexity, Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence