Cellular automata and modeling of complex physical systems. Proceedings of the Winter School, Les Houches, France, February 21 - 28, 1989 (Q1188611)

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] This proceedings contains articles which review and present recent developments in the theory and applications of cellular automata (CA). The papers are grouped under 5 headings. Part I deals with certain aspects of deterministic and probabilistic CA theory in relation to information theory and statistical physics. Part II contains theory and basis applications of lattice gas (LG) automata. Microscopic modelling of complex physical systems are dealt with in Part III and Part IV addresses the microscopic modelling of complex physical systems. In Part V there is one paper on architecture of CA machines. One of the articles presents an exhaustive list of references on LG and lattice Boltzmann equation. There is an attempt to model large scale moving objects on the basis of CA. The proceedings will be of interest to a wide spectrum of readers as it deals with varied topics such as history of CA, hardware implementation of certain CA and computer programs for certain problems in LG. Contents: \textit{E. Goles}, Cellular automata, dynamics and complexity (pp. 10-20); \textit{N. Boccara}, Scaling properties of a family of transformations defined on cellular automatic rules (pp. 21-26); \textit{K. Lindgren}, Entropy and correlations in dynamical lattice systems (pp. 27- 40); \textit{M. G. Nordahl}, Cellular automata probability measures (pp. 41- 56); \textit{J. Signorini}, Complex computing with cellular automata (pp. 57-72); \textit{R. Bidaux}, \textit{N. Boccara} and \textit{H. Chaté}, Phase transitions of two-state probabilistic cellular automata with one absorbing phase (pp. 73-81); \textit{O. Parodi} and \textit{H. Ottavi}, Simulating the Ising model on a cellular automaton (pp. 82-97); \textit{E. Domany} and \textit{D. Kandel}, Domain growth kinetics: Microscopic derivation of the \(t^{1/2}\) law (pp. 98-111); \textit{J. Myczkowski} and \textit{G. Vichniac}, Critical behavior in cellular automata models of growth (pp. 112-117); \textit{C. D. Levermore} and \textit{B. M. Boghosian}, Deterministic cellular automata with diffusive behaviour (pp. 118-129); \textit{B. Chopard} and \textit{M. Droz}, Cellular automata approach to diffusion problems (pp. 130-143); \textit{D. Frenkel}, Long-time decay of velocity autocorrelation function of two-dimensional lattice gas cellular automata (pp. 144-154); \textit{P.-M. Binder}, Evidence for Lagrangian tails in a lattice gas (pp. 155-160); \textit{J. A. Somers} and \textit{P. C. Rem}, The construction of efficient collision tables for fluid flow computations and cellular automata (pp. 161-177); \textit{S. Succi}, \textit{R. Benzi}, \textit{E. Foti}, \textit{F. Higuera} and \textit{F. Szelényi}, Lattice Boltzmann computing on the IBM 3090 vector multiprocessor (pp. 178-185); \textit{D. d'Humières}, Bibliography on lattice gases and related topics (pp. 186-205); \textit{K. Molvig}, \textit{P. Donis}, \textit{R. Miller}, \textit{J. Myczkowski} and \textit{G. Vichniac}, Multi-species lattice-gas automata for realistic fluid dynamics (pp. 206-231); \textit{D. H. Rothman}, Immiscible lattice gases: New results, new models (pp. 232-238); \textit{M. Bonetti}, \textit{A. Noullez} and \textit{J.-P. Boon}, Lattice gas simulation of 2-D viscous fingering (pp. 239-241); \textit{A. J. C. Ladd} and \textit{D. Frenkel}, Dynamics of colloidal dispersions via lattice-gas models of an incompressible fluid (pp. 242-245); \textit{B. Chopard}, Strings: A cellular automata model of moving objects (pp. 246-256); \textit{D. Dab} and \textit{J.- P. Boon}, Cellular automata approach to reaction-diffusion systems (pp. 257-273); \textit{B. Sente}, \textit{M. Dumont} and \textit{P. Dufour}, Simulation of surface reactions in heterogeneous catalysis: Sequential and parallel aspects (pp. 274-281); \textit{F. Bagnoli}, \textit{S. Isola}, \textit{R. Livi}, \textit{G. Martínez-Mekler} and \textit{S. Ruffo}, Periodic orbits in a coupled map lattice model (pp. 282-290); \textit{F. Bagnoli}, \textit{S. Ciliberto}, \textit{R. Livi} and \textit{S. Ruffo}, Phase transition in convection experiments (pp. 291-297); \textit{H. Chaté} and \textit{P. Manneville}, Using coupled map lattices to unveil structures in the space of cellular automata (pp. 298-311); \textit{F. Bagnoli} and \textit{A. Francescato}, A cellular automata machine (pp. 312-318).