Cellular Automata

Cellular automata, a dynamic model, simulates large-scale complicated problems (such as urban land evolution) by the dynamic changes of cells. It often uses the cellula (such as a plot of land in the urban grid) in the cellular space (such as urban grid) as the basic unit, and takes the status quo of the cellula (such as land use) and the neighbor status to determine the next moment of the cellular state as the basic rule. Different from other dynamic models, cellular automata is not determined by strictly defined physical equations or functions, but by a series of rules constructed by models. Therefore, cellular automata refer to either a cluster of models or a research framework.

Edited and translated by Zhang Yifei