[alife] Exploring Discrete Dynamics with DDLab - Workshop/tutorial at ECAL 2011

[Genaro Martinez]

Exploring Discrete Dynamics with DDLab 
from Cellular Automata to Random Networks
Workshop/tutorial at ECAL 2011
Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris, 
Friday, August 12, 13:30 to 17:00

Discrete dynamical networks, which include cellular automata and random Boolean networks, are at the very core of complexity and emergent self-organisation, and provided the inspiration for the founding ideas of Artificial Life, notably by Chris Langton.

Discrete Dynamics Lab (DDLab) is open source interactive graphics software able to explore a huge diversity of behaviour, space-time patterns, and basins of attraction representing the convergent flow in state-space.

The latest version of DDLab is documented in the book "Exploring Discrete Dynamics" which is just been published.

Both book and software are available below, and at www.ddlab.org where more info may be found.

The workshop will include a tutorial to demonstrate DDLab, a chance to try out your own experiments -- bring your laptop with DDLab installed, and an opportunity for a 10 minute presentation of your work involving DDLab -- submit an abstract ASAP but not later than July 27.

Subsequently, selected papers will be published in a special issue of the JCA (Journal of Cellular Automata).

Andrew Wuensche (contact: andy AT ddlab DOT org)
Andy Adamatzky
Genaro Juarez Martinez