Eleonora Bilotta

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has revolutionized science and commerce and has increased the innovation and the spread of a variety of virtual environments...

Cellular Automata (CA) are a class of spatially and temporally discrete mathematical systems characterized by local interaction and synchronous dynamical evolution, which show...

Ever more frequently, contemporary science finds itself in situations in which the only way it can address the complexity of nature is to develop new methods. One of the most...

Cellular Automata (CAs) are discrete dynamic systems that exhibit chaotic behavior and self-organization and lend themselves to description in rigorous mathematical terms. The...

What are the mechanisms underlying biological systems’ ability to transform themselves: the ability of structures to replicate for their own goals, or to meet the specific goals...

There are two classes of problem in the study of Cellular Automata. The forward. problem is the problem of determining the properties of the system. Solutions often consist of...

There have been many attempts to understand complexity and to represent it in terms of computable quantities. To date, however, these attempts have had little success. Although...

After Wolfram’s proposal, other authors analyzed systems of CAs and proposed their own classifications (Gutowitz 1990; Li, Packard, and Langton 1990). Kurka (1997) proposed to...

In Complexity Science (Bak, 1996; Morin, 2001; Gell-Mann, 1994; Prigogine & Stengers, 1984) and Artificial Life (Langton, 1995; Adami, 1998), almost all attempts to simulate or...

The concept of a cellular automaton derives from John von Neumann’s studies of the logic of life. In these studies, von Neumann focused on self-replicating structures with...

The ingenuity of nature and the power of DNA have generated an infinite range of languages - including human language. The existence of these languages inspires us to design...

Structural models and patterns are vitally important for human beings. From birth, we base our emotional and cognitive representations of the external world on species-specific...

The basic mechanisms underlying development have long been a focus of attention for biological research. Development - or morphogenesis - involves a special sequence of...

At the beginning of the 1950s, John von Neumann (1966) asked himself whether it is possible to design a machine with the ability to create exact copies of itself which would...

Our basic metaphor: in this chapter, we present a taxonomy of self-replicators - as if they were animals in a zoo. In the zoo, we play the role of an external observer (a...

It is widely recognized that the birth of modern science dates to the moment when Galileo first timed physical processes taking place in space. In biology, it is only recently...

In early 1950s, Iannis Xenakis became the first composer to use stochastic processes to generate pieces of music, working by hand. The first entirely computer-generated...