Cellular Automata: Research Towards Industry: ACRI'98 - Proceedings of the Third Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, Trieste, 7-9 October 1998

This volume contains the papers presented at the 3rd conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 8, held in Trieste, Italy, 7-9 October 1998. The conference aimed to present an international forum for researchers who are active in t his field, as well as for those interested in evaluating the possibility of applying them in their own fields. Interest in Cellular Automata is growing both in academy and industry, due to their challenging theoretical aspects as well as to their useful practical applications, and they are in use in several field, including the simulation of different kinds of dyn amical systems (physical, biological, socio-economical), machine vision, parallel computation and the theoretical analysis of complex dynamics. Research on Cellular Automata also often involved cooperation between experts in different scientific discipli nes, opening new perspectives to the cross fertilisation of different kinds of knowledge.