Minimal cellular automaton model of inter-species interactions: Phenomenology, complexity and interpretations

Abstract

Cellular automata have been used to simulate population dynamics for over 20 years. A "mass-usage" of automata to imitate space-time dynamics of species has started with the popular article by Dewdney [20], supported by scientific publications on lattice-gas automata [9] and automata models of host-parasite interaction [29, 17], see a brief overview in [24] and discussion on advantages of cellular automata models of population dynamics in [18]. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.