Reliable cellular automata with self-organization

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 45-267

  Gács, Peter ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ergodicity; Error correction; Fault tolerance; Hierarchy; Interacting particle systems; Probabilistic cellular automata; Reliability; Renormalization; Self organization; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035532610     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004823720305     Document Type: Article

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