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Can CA be used to model ecological systems?

April 26, 2017ca ecological model SYSTEMS Used

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Can CA be used to model ecological systems?

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Contributions by: Matthew Burke Marimar Villagarcia Recently there has been a significant increase in the number of articles that deal with cellular automata (CA) and ecological modeling. There are also several questions on how various aspects of CA affect their usefulness in ecological models. What follows are some quick thoughts on where the major difficulties with CA and ecological models lie. It is not intended to be thorough, and it is not as well argued as I’d like. At the end is a list of interesting references in the area. The major question that needs to be addressed is that of CA’s synchronicity. [Hog88], and others, have claimed that the simultaneous updating of all cells is at odds with the localness of interaction that is one of the strengths of CA. It has been shown that changing the definition of a CA to allow for asynchronous updating of cells can dramatically alter the behavior of the CA [Hog88] [HG93]. In particular, f