Introducing Complex Automata for Modelling Multi-Scale Complex Systems
Alfons G. Hoekstra, Bastien Chopard, PV Lawford, Rod Hose, Manfred Krafczyk, Jörg Bernsdorf · 2006
We introduce Complex Automata, a generic methodology to model multi-scale complex systems. A Complex Automaton is a scalable hierarchical aggregation of Cellular Automata and agent-based models, each modelling components of the Complex System. The components represent a sub-system operating on its typical spatial and temporal scales. The concept of a scale map is introduced to identify components and to define appropriate couplings. For two case studies a high level description in terms of a Complex Automaton will be presented. 1