EPSRC Workshop on Cellular Automata Theory and Applications

我们建议组织一个关于细胞自动机的国际研讨会，这是一个跨学科的领域，其总体目标可以概括为对离散世界的新颖而强大的模型的理论构建，计算解决方案和实际实现的追求。本次研讨会将汇集工作，重点是先进的理论建设，实验原型和细胞自动机模型，计算设备和范例的真正实现。该研讨会将对复杂系统计算模型的发展产生令人难以置信的强大影响，并将英国置于复杂系统计算建模，并行计算和数学机器理论研究的领先水平。大多数发达国家，甚至发展中国家都有几个建立细胞自动机理论和应用的小组。在英国几乎没有。这是因为在英国没有建立细胞自动机专家的文化或科学社区。对出版物的分析表明，只有少数绝缘的个人在顶级同行评审的国际期刊上发表了与细胞自动机相关的论文，相比之下，美国，法国，德国和日本的论文有数百篇甚至数千篇。这一事实尤其令人悲哀，因为细胞自动机领域的几位主要专家，包括著名的斯蒂芬·沃尔夫勒姆（Stephen Wolfram）（《新科学》），都是英国出生，但在海外工作。在波兰举办了关于细胞自动机的各种讲习班和会议（格但斯克，2005），德国（卡尔斯鲁厄，2000年，2004年;劳伊施霍尔茨豪森，1996年;达格斯图尔，1995年）;荷兰（阿姆斯特丹，2004年）;比利时（鲁汶，2003年）;捷克共和国（布拉格，2002年）;日本（大坂，2000年;横滨，2001年）;法国（佩皮尼昂，2006年;里昂，1999年）;智利（圣地亚哥，1998年）;意大利（的里雅斯特，1998年;加纳诺，1997年）;瑞士（日内瓦，2002年）;加拿大（安大略，2007年）。尽管欧洲充斥着与细胞自动机相关的事件，但英格兰仍然相对未参与其中。通过在布里斯托（英国）组织EPSRC资助的研讨会，我们将使英国的研究人员，学者和学生能够了解由世界领先的特邀演讲者提供的细胞自动机理论的新颖结果，概念和范例，鼓励目前正在研究细胞自动机问题的英国科学家走到一起，吸引自然科学研究人员对细胞自动机建模的成本效益技术的关注，并将引导工业家欣赏细胞自动机计算架构的高潜力。

We are proposing to organise an international workshop on cellular automata, an interdisciplinary field, whose general goal might be summarised as the quest for theoretical constructs, computational solutions and practical implementations of novel and powerful models of discrete world. This workshop will bring together work that focuses on advanced theoretical constructions, experimental prototypes and genuine implementations of cellular-automaton models, computing devices and paradigms. The workshop will make an incredibly strong impact on the development of computational models of complex systems, and put the UK at the leading level of research in computational modelling of complex systems, parallel computing and theory of mathematical machines.Most developed and even developing countries have several established groups undertaking on cellular automata theory and applications. There is almost none in UK. This is because there is no culture or scientific community of cellular-automaton experts established in UK. Analysis of publications shows that just few insulated individuals do publish cellular-automaton related papers in top peer reviewed international journals, compared to hundreds if not thousands of papers originated in USA, France, Germany and Japan. The fact is particularly sad because several leading experts in cellular automata, including famous Stephen Wolfram (New Kind of Science), are British-born but working overseas. Various workshops and conference on cellular automata were organized in Poland (Gdansk, 2005), Germany (Karlsruhe, 2000, 2004, Rauischholzhausen, 1996; Dagstuhl, 1995); The Netherlands (Amsterdamm, 2004); Belgium (Leuven, 2003); Czech Republic (Prague, 2002); Japan (Osaka, 2000; Yokohama, 2001); France (Perpignan, 2006; Lyon, 1999); Chile (Santiago, 1998); Italy (Trieste, 1998; Garnano, 1997); Switzerland (Geneva, 2002); Canada (Ontario, 2007). Despite the fact that Europe is swarmed with cellular-automata related events, England still remains relatively uninvolved. By organizing an EPSRC funded workshop in Bristol (UK) we will enable UK-based researchers, academics and students to get a sense of novel results, concepts and paradigms of cellular automaton theory, delivered by world-leading invited speakers, encourage UK-based scientists currently working on cellular automata problems to come together, attract attention of researchers from natural sciences to cost-efficient techniques of cellular-automaton modelling, and will beacon industrialists in appreciating high-potential of cellular-automaton computing architectures.