TY - CHAP AU - Lei Wang AU - Faquir Jain AU - Fabrizio Lombardi ED - Alejandro Salcido Y1 - 2011-04-11 PY - 2011 T1 - Information-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Behaviors in Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata N2 - Modelling and simulation are disciplines of major importance for science and engineering. There is no science without models, and simulation has nowadays become a very useful tool, sometimes unavoidable, for development of both science and engineering. The main attractive feature of cellular automata is that, in spite of their conceptual simplicity which allows an easiness of implementation for computer simulation, as a detailed and complete mathematical analysis in principle, they are able to exhibit a wide variety of amazingly complex behaviour. This feature of cellular automata has attracted the researchers' attention from a wide variety of divergent fields of the exact disciplines of science and engineering, but also of the social sciences, and sometimes beyond. The collective complex behaviour of numerous systems, which emerge from the interaction of a multitude of simple individuals, is being conveniently modelled and simulated with cellular automata for very different purposes. In this book, a number of innovative applications of cellular automata models in the fields of Quantum Computing, Materials Science, Cryptography and Coding, and Robotics and Image Processing are presented. BT - Cellular Automata SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/16101 DO - 10.5772/16101 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -