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There are many examples where cellular automata contribute to the understanding of scientific phenomena. In the following, we briefly sketch three of these applications to demonstrate the flexibility of cellular automata as a modeling approach. All these models allow for a specific analysis of their dynamics, at least in some heuristic way.
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Hadeler, KP., Müller, J. (2017). Applications in Various Areas. In: Cellular Automata: Analysis and Applications. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53043-7_13
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