@inbook{fdfd7effe4054407a9c1344d3a41c442,
title = "Hierarchical cellular automata methods",
abstract = "Many real-world spatial systems involve interacting processes that operate over more than scale. Whilst there has been a strong growth in knowledge about multiscale systems in many disciplines, the advent of coupled, multiresolution, multiscale and hierarchical cellular automata has been recent in comparison. Here, the structural definition of a cellular automaton is augmented with an abstraction operator, which transforms the cellular automaton into a hierarchy of cellular spaces. Simple propagation is used as a familiar and common behavioural phenomenon in several examples of behavioural specification. The purpose of this chapter is to provide the basics of a general framework, from which may be constructed for specific applications. Simple examples from landscape ecology are used to elucidate the methods.",
author = "Adam Dunn",
year = "2010",
month = may,
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-12203-3_4",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783642122026",
volume = "2010",
series = "Understanding Complex Systems",
publisher = "Springer, Springer Nature",
pages = "59--80",
editor = "Jiri Kroc and Sloot, {Peter M.A.} and Hoekstra, {Alfons G.}",
booktitle = "Simulating complex systems by cellular automata",
address = "United States",
}