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A Hybrid Model Based on a Cellular Automata and Fuzzy Logic to Simulate the Population Dynamics

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Soft Computing for Hybrid Intelligent Systems

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 154))

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At present time, new advances in the generation of computational models can be applied to improve tasks in different areas of research. The hybrid computational models can be considered as new advances in science. In the present work a hybrid model has been proposed on the basis of a cellular automata and fuzzy logic to simulate, in space and time, the dynamics of a population structured by ages and where the changes in the levels of the biomass are induced by a stochastic variation of the environment. The model can be used as computational tool in the area of the Biology to describe and quantify the changes that continuously occurs in the population, knowing not only their size and its structure, but the form and the intensity in which it changes and renews.

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Oscar Castillo Patricia Melin Janusz Kacprzyk Witold Pedrycz

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Ramírez, C.L., Castillo, O. (2008). A Hybrid Model Based on a Cellular Automata and Fuzzy Logic to Simulate the Population Dynamics. In: Castillo, O., Melin, P., Kacprzyk, J., Pedrycz, W. (eds) Soft Computing for Hybrid Intelligent Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 154. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70812-4_11

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