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Lazy Cellular Automata with Communicating Processes

A.T. Sampson, P.H. Welch, and F.R.M. Barnes

In J.F. Broenink, H.W. Roebbers, J.P.E. Sunter, P.H. Welch, and D.C. Wood, editors, Communicating Process Architectures 2005, volume 63 of Concurrent Systems Engineering Series, pages 165-175, IOS Press, The Netherlands, September 2005. IOS Press.

Abstract

Cellular automata (CAs) are good examples of systems in which large numbers of autonomous entities exhibit emergent behaviour. Using the occam-pi and JCSP communicating process systems, we show how to construct ``lazy'' and ``just-in-time'' models of cellular automata, which permit very efficient parallel simulation of sparse CA populations on shared-memory and distributed systems.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{2246,
author = {A.T. Sampson and P.H. Welch and F.R.M. Barnes},
title = {{Lazy Cellular Automata with Communicating Processes}},
month = {September},
year = {2005},
pages = {165-175},
keywords = {CSP occam-pi JCSP parallel CA Life lazy just-in-time simulation},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2005/2246},
    publication_type = {inproceedings},
    submission_id = {18793_1127479488},
    ISBN = {1-58603-561-4},
    booktitle = {Communicating Process Architectures 2005},
    editor = {J.F. Broenink and H.W. Roebbers and J.P.E. Sunter and P.H. Welch and D.C. Wood},
    volume = {63},
    series = {Concurrent Systems Engineering Series},
    address = {IOS Press, The Netherlands},
    publisher = {IOS Press},
    refereed = {yes},
}

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