Description: Reaction-Diffusion Automata: Phenomenology, Localisations, Computation Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Andrew Adamatzky Format: Paperback Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, Germany Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K ISBN-13: 9783642435720, 978-3642435720 Synopsis 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.
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Book Title: Reaction-Diffusion Automata: Phenomenology, Localisations, Com...
Number of Pages: 330 Pages
Publication Name: Reaction-Diffusion Automata: Phenomenology, Localisations, Computation
Language: English
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin AND Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. KG
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Computer Science
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 5212 g
Author: Andrew Adamatzky
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Emergence, Complexity and Computation
Format: Paperback
