Alfons G. Hoekstra, Jiri Kroc, Peter M. A. Sloot.
Simulating Complex Systems by Cellular Automata.
Springer. 2010
In this context of fast and impressive progress, spurred further by the enormous attraction these topics have on students, this book emerges as a welcome overview of the field for its practitioners, as well as a good starting point for detailed study on the graduate and post-graduate level.
The book contains three parts, two major parts on theory and applications, and a smaller part on software. The theory part contains fundamental chapters on how to design and/or apply CA for many different areas. In the applications part a number of representative examples of really using CA in a broad range of disciplines is provided – this part will give the reader a good idea of the real strength of this kind of modeling as well as the incentive to apply CA in their own field of study.