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  title info:
    title: Reaction-Diffusion Automata: Phenomenology, Localisations, Computation
  name:
    name part: Adamatzky, Andrew.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 330 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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. .
  table of contents: Part I Phenomenology and localisations -- Part II Population dynamics -- Part III Computation with excitation.
  note: by Andrew Adamatzky.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Computational intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Complexity, Computational
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Computational Intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
  classification: QA76.9.M35
  classification: 620
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Emergence, Complexity and Computation, 1
  identifier: 9783642310782
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31078-2
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    record creation date: 120914
    record change date: 20151125192414.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-31078-2