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Modeling and Imaging 3-Dimensional Collective Cell Invasion
Published on: December 7, 2011
Evolving three-dimensional cellular automata to perform a quasiperiod-3 collective behavior task
1Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Sevilla, P. O. Box 1065, 41080-Seville, Spain.
Abstract:
We present results from experiments in which a genetic algorithm (GA) is used to develop three-dimensional cellular automata (CA) to perform a nontrivial collective behavior task. Under a fitness function that is defined as an averaged area in the iterative map, the GA detects a CA rule with quasiperiod-3 (QP3) collective behavior and another with period-3. For rules with QP3 the time autocorrelation function decays as a power law with an exponent of -1/2, according to the predictions of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation, and a space-time diagram reveals the existence of propagating structures inside the system.
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