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Last t ime
❒ Nonlinear dynamic syst ems
❍ The Logist ic map
❒ St range at t ract or s
❍ The Hénon at t ract or ❍ The Lor enz at t r act or
❒ Producer-consumer dynamics
❍ Equat ion-based modeling ❍ I ndividual-based modeling
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Out line f or t oday
❒ Cellular aut omat a
❍ One-dimensional ❍ Wolf r am’s classif icat ion ❍ Langt on’s lambda par amet er ❍ Two-dimensional
- Conway’s Game of Lif e
❒ Pat t ern f ormat ion in slime molds
❍ Dict yost elium discoideum ❍ Modeling of pat t er n
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Complex Syst em
❒ Things t hat consist of many similar and
simple par t s
❍ Of t en easy t o under st and t he part s ❍ The global behavior much harder t o explain ❍ On many levels ❍ Some ar e capable of univer sal comput at ion
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Cellular Aut omat a
❒ A dynamic syst em ❒ I nvent ed by J ohn von Neumann
❍ Wit h help f r om St anislaw Ulam ❍ 1940s ❍ Want ed t o under st and t he pr ocess of
r eproduct ion
❍ The essence
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One-Dimensional CA
❒ Linear gr id of cells ❒ Each cell can be in one of k dif f erent st at es ❒ Next st at e is comput ed as an f unct ion of t he st at es
- f neighbors (and own st at e)
❒ Neighborhood
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1-Dim CA - Example
❒ k = 2, r = 1