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Simulating Complex Systems by Cellular Automata pp 59–80Cite as

Hierarchical Cellular Automata Methods

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Many real-world spatial systems involve interacting processes that operate over more than scale. Whilst there has been a strong growth in knowledge about multiscale systems in many disciplines, the advent of coupled, multiresolution, multiscale and hierarchical cellular automata has been recent in comparison. Here, the structural definition of a cellular automaton is augmented with an abstraction operator, which transforms the cellular automaton into a hierarchy of cellular spaces. Simple propagation is used as a familiar and common behavioural phenomenon in several examples of behavioural specification. The purpose of this chapter is to provide the basics of a general framework, from which may be constructed for specific applications. Simple examples from landscape ecology are used to elucidate the methods.

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  1. Centre for Health Informatics, University of New South Wales UNSW, Sydney NSW, 2052, Australia

    Adam Dunn

  2. Alcoa Research Centre for Stronger Communities, Curtin University of Technology, PO Box U1985, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia

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  2. Fac. Science, Informatics Institute, Universiteit Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, Amsterdam, 1098 SJ, Netherlands

    Peter M.A. Sloot

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    Alfons G. Hoekstra

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Dunn, A. (2010). Hierarchical Cellular Automata Methods. In: Kroc, J., Sloot, P., Hoekstra, A. (eds) Simulating Complex Systems by Cellular Automata. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12203-3_4

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