Cellular Automata and Cooperative Systems, Vol. 396 Book

This book contains the lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on `Cellular Automata and Cooperative Systems', held at Les Houches, France, from June 22 to July 2, 1992.
The book contains contributions by mathematical and theoretical physicists and mathematicians working in the field of local interacting systems, cellular probabilistic automata, statistical physics, and complexity theory, as well as the applications of these fields.

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Contains the lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at the Centre de Physique des Houches, France, June-July 1992. This workshop brought together mathematical physicists, theoretical physicists, and mathematicians working in fields related to local interacting systems, cellular and probabilistic automata, statistical physics, and complexity theory, as well as applications of these fields. Among the topics: automata network epidemic models, structure evolution of neural network, dynamics of random neural nets, a formula of full semi-invariants, cryptography with dynamical systems, stochastic equations on random trees, cooperative phenomena in swarms, and chaotic size dependence in spin glasses. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)