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Cellular automata and self-organized criticality

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2008-02-03 v1 adap-org Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

Abstract

Cellular automata provide a fascinating class of dynamical systems capable of diverse complex behavior. These include simplified models for many phenomena seen in nature. Among other things, they provide insight into self-organized criticality, wherein dissipative systems naturally drive themselves to a critical state with important phenomena occurring over a wide range of length and time scales.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9611017,
  title  = {Cellular automata and self-organized criticality},
  author = {Michael Creutz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9611017},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

23 pages, 12 figures (most in color); uses sprocl.tex; chapter submitted for "Some new directions in science on computers," G. Bhanot, S. Chen, and P. Seiden, eds