EXPLORING DISCRETE DYNAMICS is a comprehensive guide to studying
cellular automata and discrete dynamical networks with the classic
software Discrete Dynamics Laboratory (DDLab,
www.ddlab.org), widely
used in research and education. These collective networks are at the
core of complexity and emergent self-organisation. With interactive
graphics, DDLab is able to explore a huge diversity of behaviour,
mostly terra incognita -- space-time patterns, and basins of
attraction -- mathematical objects representing the convergent flow in
state-space. Applications range within physics, mathematics, biology,
cognition, society, economics and computation, and more specifically
in neural and genetic networks, artificial life, and theories of
memory.
An extended description is available from:
http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/LCCOMP/en/Files/Entries/2011/6/9_Exploring_Discrete_Dynamics.html