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AUTOMATA (Rules of transformation in cellular)

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Charles François (2004). AUTOMATA (Rules of transformation in cellular), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 205.
Collection International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year 2004
Vol. (num.) 2(1)
ID 205
Object type Discipline oriented, Methodology or model

Those rules which prescribe the ways in which the elements of the automata will be created, maintained or destroyed at each transition from one to another state.

Different rules are possible, leading to:

- a seemingly random transformation

- self-reproduction

- blocage in some definitive state

- some cyclical transformation of the automata

See also

Game of Life

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