Autah-gr.146 net.misc utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas Fri Feb 19 13:27:01 1982 Cellular Automata Here is a (not complete) list of references I dug up recently. There is a hell of a lot of literature in this area, just about any paper will point you to 5 more, each of which will .... J. von Neumann, "Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata" (A.W. Burks, Ed.), Univ of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1966. [I am currently reading this. It's a very readable book, so far, he has a sort of chatty writing style, and the editor's notes reflect this as well. Probably the original source you should go to first before reading the other stuff.] H. Yamada and S. Amoroso, Tessellation Automata, Information and Control 14, 299-317 (1969) S. Amoroso and G. Cooper, Tessellation Structures for Reproduction of Arbitrary Patterns, J of Computer and System Sciences 5, 455-464 (1971) T. J. Ostrand, Pattern Reproduction in Tessallation Automata of Arbitrary Dimension, J of Comp and Sys Sci 5, 623-628 (1971) W. L. Hamilton and J. R. Mertens, Jr., Reproduction in Tessellation Structures, J of Comp and Sys Sci 10, 248-252 (1975) P. G. Anderson, Another Proof of the Theorem on Pattern Reproduction in Tessellation Structures, J of Comp and Sys Sci 12, 394-398 (1976) A. G. Barto, A Note on Pattern Reproduction in Tessellation Structures, J of Comp and Sys Sci 16, 445-455 (1978) I haven't gotten to the papers yet, so I can't really comment on their content, but these were the ones I selected (on the basis of quick skims) as being "most relevant". =Spencer (harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.