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ACRI'96 is the second conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry; the first one was held in Rende (Cosenza), on September 29-30, 1994. This second edition confirms the growing interest in Cellular Automata currently present both in the scientific community and within the industrial applications world. Cellular Automata-based computational models, besides capturing the attention of scientists working in different fields, open new perspectives of intersection between different and historically distant areas of scientific knowledge, from Physics to Biology, to Computer Science. ACRI'96 aims at providing a forum both for researchers working in the Cellular Automata field, and for those who foresee the possibility to verify on concrete domains of application the impact of their solutions, as well as for those who are looking for a possibility of reflection upon the specific concept of parallel and distributed computation provided by Cellular Automata. This book contains the works presented at the conference. The invited papers cover different aspects of Cellular Automata. T. Worsch gives a classification of Cellular Automata mapping on the existent computational frameworks for the simulation of their behavior. One of the most mature areas where Cellular Automata showed their value is Physics: B. Chopard illustrates recent results on wave modeling, and some possible applications. According to the general purpose of ACRI'96 of transfering research results to the industrial world, F.
List of contents
Invited Lectures.- Programming Environments for Cellular Automata.- A Lattice Boltzmann Wave Model and its Applications.- Complex Systems and Core Competencies for the Industrial Innovation.- Contributed Papers.- Coupled Maps Lattice Dynamics on a Variable Space for the Study of Development.- Essential Transformations of the One Dimensional Cellular Automata Rule Space and Endomorphisms of Compact Abelian Groups.- Lyapunov Exponents Vs Expansivity and Sensitivity in Cellular Automata.- Quasiperiod-3 and Period 3 Collective Behavior in Three Dimensional Totalistic illegal Cellular Automata with High Connectivity.- Simulation of Water Flow through a Porous Soil by Cellular Automaton Model.- Solving Routing Problems with Cellular Automata.- Towards Multilayered Automata Networks.- A Composite Automaton Designed to Model Complex Biological Systems. Modeling the Calcium-Ion Distribution in the Living Cell.- Time Dependant Grid Simulation by a Cellular Automata Network.- Cellular Neural Networks for Realizing Associative Memories.- A Cellular Automata Approach to the Simulation of a Prey-Predator System of Mites.- Urban Cellular Automata: an Evolutionary Prototype.- A Cooperative Edge Grammar for Edge Detection.- Hardware Supported Simulation Systems for Graph Based and 3-D Cellular Processing.- Evolvable Cellular Machines.- A High-Level Language for Programming Cellular Algorithms on Parallel Machines.- Author Index.
