Modelling and simulation of complex cellular models using Cell-DEVS. (February 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wainer, Gabriel; Fernández, Joaquín
• Other Names: Wąs Jarosław guest-editor.; Sirakoulis Georgios Ch. guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Simulation. Volume 92:Number 2(2016:Feb.)
• Page Start: 101
• Page End: 115
• Publication Date: 2016-02
• Subjects: discrete event simulation -- cellular models -- cellular automata; Computer simulation -- Periodicals; 003.3
• DOI: 10.1177/0037549715611485
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0037-5497

Abstract

Cellular automata are discrete dynamical systems that provide a mathematical framework for modelling, studying and predicting the behaviour and response of systems across many different disciplines and domains, ranging from physical and biological to computational and social models. Cell-DEVS is a formalism that provides a discrete event approach to define cellular models with timing delay constructions and using simple definition of complex timing. It has been shown that the application of the Cell-DEVS paradigm produces a significant reduction in the development times of cell-shaped models and a wide variety of complex models has been developed using this approach. In this work we present the definition of complex cellular automata models using the Cell-DEVS paradigm, we use the CD++ tool to obtain executable models and study their behaviour through computer simulation.