This Lecture Notes Volume represents the first time any of the summer school lectures have been collected and published on a discrete subject rather than groupi

During the past decade interest in the formation of complex disorderly patterns far from equilibrium has grown rapidly. This interest has been stim ulated by th

Patterns and their formations appear throughout nature, and are studied to analyze different problems in science and make predictions across a wide range of dis

This text explores the use of cellular automata in modeling pattern formation in biological systems. It describes several mathematical modeling approaches utili