The CAM-8 as an Ecomachine

这一奖项授予威斯康星大学的David Griffeath，将支持开发用户友好的元胞自动机(CAM-8)界面。CAM是一台并行处理机，用于处理元胞自动机建模问题。元胞自动机是规则，通常是空间上的局部性质，它引起有趣和复杂的全球空间动力学。这个界面将与生态学家一起开发，并将重点放在他们感兴趣的模型上。这个探索性研究的小资助金将调查细胞自动机在建模和理解具有复杂空间动力学的生态过程方面的潜力。

This award to David Griffeath at the University of Wisconsin will support the development of a user-friendly interface to the Cellular Automaton Machine (CAM-8). The CAM is a parallel processing machine that was built to handle problems modeling cellular automata. Cellular automata are rules, usually spatially local in nature, which give rise to interesting and complex global spatial dynamics. This interface will be developed in conjunction with ecologists and will focus on models of interest to them. This Small Grant for Exploratory Research will investigate the potential for the cellular automata in modeling and understanding ecological processes with complex spatial dynamics.