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Here is the first book devoted to quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) - an emerging nanoelectronic circuit design technology that more and more industry experts are viewing as a superior alternative to current technologies. QCA promises to help practitioners achieve room temperature operation and realize improvements in speed, density and power over existing (CMOS) systems. This groundbreaking resource provides a comprehensive view of QCA, showing practitioners how to work with this cutting-edge technology. The book offers an in-depth understanding of the design, test, defect tolerance, and computer aided design support for QCA. It identifies and discusses the key challenges facing QCA and offers possible solutions to these issues. Additionally, professionals find a comprehensive nanotechnology survey, detailing the advantages and disadvantages of various technologies. ... Read more

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Almost all real systems are nonlinear. For a nonlinear system the superposition principle breaks down: The system's response is not proportional to the stimulus it receives; the whole is more than the sum of its parts. The three parts of this book contains the basics of nonlinear science, with applications in physics. Part I contains an overview of fractals, chaos, solitons, pattern formation, cellular automata and complex systems. In Part II, 14 reviews and essays by pioneers, as well as 10 research articles are reprinted. Part III collects 17 students projects, with computer algorithms for simulation models included. The book can be used for self-study, as a textbook for a one-semester course, or as supplement to other courses in linear of nonlinear systems. The reader should have some knowledge in introductory college physics. No mathematics beyond calculus and no computer literacy are assumed. ... Read more

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This book focuses on a challenging application field of cellular automata--pattern formation in biological systems, such as the growth of microorganisms, dynamics of cellular tissue and tumors, and formation of pigment cell patterns. These phenomena, resulting from complex cellular interactions, cannot be deduced solely from experimental analysis, but can be more easily examined using mathematical models, in particular, cellular automaton models.

While there are various books treating cellular automaton modeling, this interdisciplinary work is the first one covering biological applications. The book is divided into three parts: Part I deals with general principles, theories, and models of pattern formation; Part II examines cellular automaton modeling; and Part III explains various applications. The models and analytic techniques described may be extended to other exciting applications in biology, medicine, and immunology.

* Self-contained presentation is accessible to a broad audience; only basic calculus and linear algebra are required

* Careful balance of theory, models, and applications useful to both experimentalists and theoreticians

* Includes suggestions for further research topics

The book is aimed at researchers, practitioners, and students in applied mathematics, mathematical biology, computational physics, bioengineering, and computer science interested in a cellular automaton approach to biological modeling. The book's accessible presentation and interdisciplinary approach make it suitable for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses and seminars in mathematical biology, biomodeling, and biocomputing. ... Read more

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Cellular Automata and Complex Systems: Methods for Modeling Biological Phenomena describes the use of cellular automata to provide important insights into a vast range of physical, biological, social, economic and psychological phenomena.This book presents contemporary research on discrete dynamical systems such as one-dimensional and two-dimensional cellular automata and outlines how these systems can be exploited for artistic purposes, translating their mathematical configurations into music and visual media. ... Read more

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Cellular automata are regular uniform networks of locally-connected finite-state machines. They are discrete systems with non-trivial behaviour. Cellular automata are ubiquitous: they are mathematical models of computation and computer models of natural systems. The book presents results of cutting edge research in cellular-automata framework of digital physics and modelling of spatially extended non-linear systems;massive-parallel computing, language acceptance, and computability; reversibility of computation, graph-theoretic analysis and logic;chaos and undecidability; evolution, learning and cryptography. The book is unique because it brings together unequalled expertise of inter-disciplinary studies at the edge of mathematics, computer science, engineering, physics and biology. ... Read more

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This book presents an extensive survey and report of related research on important developments in cellular automata (CA) theory. The authors introduce you to this theory in a comprehensive manner that will help you understand the basics of CA and be prepared for further research. They illustrate the matrix algebraic tools that characterize group CA and help develop its applications in the field of VLSI testing.

The text examines schemes based on easily testable FSM, bit-error correcting code, byte error correcting code, and characterization of 2D cellular automata. In addition, it looks into CA-based universal pattern generation, data encryption, and synthesis of easily testable combinational logic. The book covers new characterizations of group CA behavior, CA-based tools for fault diagnosis, and a wide variety of applications to solve real-life problems. ... Read more

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One point stop for anything & everything on Cellular Automat
A very informative book. It covers CA from the basics till the research that is going on now in this field. The Author is on eof the pioneers in this field. A must reading. ... Read more

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Cellular automata can be viewed both as computational modelsand modelling systems of real processes. This volume emphasises thefirst aspect. In articles written by leading researchers,sophisticated massive parallel algorithms (firing squad, life,Fischer's primes recognition) are treated. Their computational powerand the specific complexity classes they determine are surveyed, whilesome recent results in relation to chaos from a new dynamic systemspoint of view are also presented.
Audience: This book will be of interest to specialists oftheoretical computer science and the parallelism challenge.
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Cellular automata provide an interesting avenue into the study of complex systems in general, as well as having an intrinsic interest of their own. Because of their mathematical simplicity and representational robustness they have been used to model economic, political, biological, ecological, chemical, and physical systems. Almost any system which can be treated in terms of a discrete representation space in which the dynamics is based on local interaction rules can be modelled by a cellular automata. The aim of this book is to give an introduction to the analysis of cellular automata (CA) in terms of an approach in which CA rules are viewed as elements of a nonlinear operator algebra, which can be expressed in component form much as ordinary vectors are in vector algebra. Although a variety of different topics are covered, this viewpoint provides the underlying theme. The actual mathematics used is not complicated, and the material should be accessible to anyone with a junior-level university background, and a certain degree of mathematical maturity. ... Read more

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Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ARI 2002. ... Read more

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correction
Actually, I don't want to review this book since I am one
of the book editors. I just wish to point out that the book
is incorrectely referenced. The actual title, publisher and
editors are as follows:

title: Cellular Automata: Proceeding of the 5th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 2002.

Editors: S. Bandini, B. Chopard, M. Tomassini

Publisher: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2493, Springer
Verlag, Heidelberg, 2002. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 2004, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in October 2004.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 2006. The book presents 53 revised full papers and 19 revised poster papers together with 6 invited lectures. Topical sections include CA theory and implementation, computational theory, population dynamics, physical modeling, urban, environmental and social modeling, traffic and boolean networks, multi-agents and robotics, as well as crowds and cellular automata, and more.

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The text is a self-contained, comprehensive introduction to the theory of hydrodynamic lattice gases. Lattice-gas cellular automata are discrete models of fluids. Identical particles hop from site to site on a regular lattice, obeying simple conservative scattering rules when they collide. Remarkably, at a scale larger than the lattice spacing, these discrete models simulate the Navier-Stokes equations of fluid mechanics. This book addresses three important aspects of lattice gases. First, it shows how such simple idealised microscopic dynamics give rise to isotropic macroscopic hydrodynamics. Second, it details how the simplicity of the lattice gas provides for equally simple models of fluid phase separation, hydrodynamic interfaces, and multiphase flow. Lastly, it illustrates how lattice-gas models and related lattice-Boltzmann methods have been used to solve problems in applications as diverse as flow through porous media, phase separation, and interface dynamics. Many exercises and references are included. ... Read more

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In depth analysis of LGCA hydrodynamics. Good reference.
Rothman is a principal in the field of LGCA research, and it shows: the introductory material is lucid and self-contained. The more advanced topics (e.g., the statistical mechanics of LGCA) are also generally well-written,although not self-contained: many readers coming from computer science orwithout a solid background in statistical mechanics or fluid mechanics maystruggle at times. Still, this is a relatively minor shortcoming, and thegenerous references more than make up for it. Overall a good book and agood introduction to the subject.

NB. The authors have a link to theircodes for LGCA; however, the book does not touch on the actualimplementation of the theory: readers who want to model LGCA hydro forthemselves will have to implement and modify the codes without the benefitof much explanation. ... Read more

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This work provides a survey of the basic ideas of the cellular automaton (CA) modelling enviroment, emphasizing the relevance of this framework to astrophysical applications. It contains introductory-level lectures including lattice gases, CA turbulence, diffusion-reaction processes, percolation and self-organized criticality. Further more it gives a variety of astrophysical applications, including stellar oscillations, galactic evolution and distribution of luminous matter in the universe. ... Read more

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This book contains the courses given at the Fifth School onComplex Systems held at Santiago, Chile, from 9th to 13th December,1996, by researchers working on areas related to recent trends inComplex Systems, including dynamical systems, cellular automata,symbolic dynamics, spatial systems, statistical physics andthermo-dynamics. Scientists working in these subjects come fromseveral areas: pure and applied mathematics, physics, biology,computer science and electrical engineering. Each contribution isdevoted to one of the above subjects. In most cases they arestructured as surveys, presenting an original point of view about thetopic as well as showing mostly new results. ... Read more

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This volume contains the lectures given at the Third School onStatistical Physics and Cooperative Systems, Santiago, Chile, inDecember 1992.
All lectures are related to recent interdisciplinary trends instatistical physics: nonlinear phenomena, dynamical systems, ergodictheory, cellular automata, symbolic dynamics, large deviations theoryand numeral networks. Each contribution is devoted to one or more ofthe previous subjects. In most cases they are structured as surveyspresenting an original point of view and new results at the same time.
For researchers and graduate students interested in statisticalphysics and theoretical computer science.
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Cellular automata are fully discrete dynamical systems with dynamical variables defined at the nodes of a lattice and taking values in a finite set. Application of a local transition rule at each lattice site generates the dynamics. The interpretation of systems with a large number of degrees of freedom in terms of lattice gases has received considerable attention recently due to the many applications of this approach, e.g. for simulating fluid flows under nearly realistic conditions, for modeling complex microscopic natural phenomena such as diffusion-reaction or catalysis, and for analysis of pattern-forming systems. The discussion in this book covers aspects of cellular automata theory related to general problems of information theory and statistical physics, lattice gas theory, direct applications, problems arising in the modeling of microscopic physical processes, complex macroscopic behavior (mostly in connection with turbulence), and the design of special-purpose computers. ... Read more

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Dear Dr. Codd
Dear Dr. Codd, I was wondering if you would allow me to meet you in person before you leave this earth. I don't know how else to meet you in this lifetime, but I know that perhaps if I humble myself enough that you maycontact me. Please give me a chance, just look at the activity here -nothing - I deserve a chance; I carry your legacy either way; I'm alreadyexposed to it, so it really is not material that I meet you in person ornot, but it sure would feel good! metz@fmhi.usf.edu ... Read more