03353nam 2200589 a 450 991043792940332120200520144314.01-283-63083-497866139432863-642-31078-810.1007/978-3-642-31078-2(CKB)2670000000253939(EBL)1030511(OCoLC)811052187(SSID)ssj0000767162(PQKBManifestationID)11414659(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000767162(PQKBWorkID)10733014(PQKB)11636088(DE-He213)978-3-642-31078-2(MiAaPQ)EBC1030511(PPN)168318415(EXLCZ)99267000000025393920120530d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReaction-diffusion automata phenomenology, localisations, computation /Andrew Adamatzky1st ed. 2013.New York Springer20131 online resource (327 p.)Emergence, complexity and computation,2194-7287 ;1Description based upon print version of record.3-642-43572-6 3-642-31077-X Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Phenomenology and localisations -- pt. 2. Population dynamics -- pt. 3. Computation with excitation.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.  .Emergence, Complexity and Computation,2194-7287 ;1Cellular automataCellular automata.511.3Adamatzky Andrew898136MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910437929403321Reaction-diffusion automata4204778UNINA