Cellular automata provide an interesting avenue into the study of complex systems in general, as well as having an intrinsic interest of their own. Because of their mathematical simplicity and representational robustness they have been used to model economic, political, biological, ecological, chemical, and physical systems. Almost any system which can be treated in terms of a discrete representation space in which the dynamics is based on local interaction rules can be modelled by a cellular automata. The aim of this book is to give an introduction to the analysis of cellular automata (CA)...

In this volume, five papers are collected that give a good sample of the problems and the results characterizing some recent trends and advances in this theory. Some of them are devoted to the improvement of a general abstract knowledge of the behaviour of elastic bodies, while the others mainly deal with more applicative topics. The first paper entitled "Collected Results on Finite Amplitude Plane Waves in Deformed Mooney-Rivlin Materials" by Ph. Boulanger and M. Hayes gives a complete and systematic exposition of a body of selected results concerning the propagation of finite-amplitude...