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NEW CONSTRUCTIONS IN CELLULAR AUTOMATA
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| By: |
David Griffeath, Cristopher Moore |
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Paperback |
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£74.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195137183 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195137187 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
27 March, 2003 |
| Series: |
Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity |
| Pages: |
360 |
| Description: |
Cellular automata are widely-used tools for simulation in physics, ecology, evolution, mathematics and other fields. They are also digital "toy universes" worthy of study in their own right, with a significant and growing body of enthusiastic investigators. This book will present many of the most interesting new developments and applications of cellular automata. There has not been a compilation like this for some time and this field is due for an explosion ofresearch interest in the rather near future. |
| Synopsis: |
This book not only discusses cellular automata (CA) as accouterment for simulation, but also the actual building of devices within cellular automata. CA are widely used tools for simulation in physics, ecology, mathematics, and other fields. But they are also digital "toy universes" worthy of study in their own right, with their own laws of physics and behavior. In studying CA for their own sake, we must look at constructive methods, that is the practice of actually building devices in a given CA that store and process in formation, replicate, and propagate themselves, and interact with other devices in complex ways. By building such machines, we learn what the CA's dynamics are capable of, and build an intuition about how to "engineer" the machine we want. We can also address fundamental questions, such as whether universal computation or even "living" things that reproduce and evolve can exist in the CA's digital world, and perhaps, how these things came to be in out own universe. |
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8pp colour plates, numerous figures and halftones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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