From: Howard Andrew GUTOWITZ (gutowitz@amoco.saclay.cea.fr)
Date: Mon Mar 22 1993 - 20:09:29 UTC
Quick response to Christos Ouzounis >My questions: >1. What are currently the major problems in CA research?? This depends on the background of the person queried. Probably everyone will agree that the following are major problems: a) What general methods are there to make CA which do useful things? b) What makes CA special, i.e. what is lost and what is gained when you let go of synchronicity of updates, or finitude of the set of cell states etc.? c) What is the relationship in the context of CA of various measures of complexity of behavior? >2. Is there a kind of standard (or very popular) s/w package that people > use in CA-related research?? For a review of packages see Appendix I (by D. Heibeler) of "Cellular Automata" MIT press 1991. > 3. What happenned with Rucker's (1980) CAL (cell autom lab)?? I leave this to Rucker himself to respond. > 4. Have higher-dimensional CA ever been used and where/how?? Yes. By Chate and Manneville, to study collective behaviors, within the last two or three years, in France, the CEA. email chate@amoco.saclay.cea.fr for more info. Hope this is of help. H. Gutowitz
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