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Emergent Phenomena in Cellular Automata

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Hanson, J.E. (2009). Emergent Phenomena in Cellular Automata. In: Adamatzky, A. (eds) Cellular Automata. Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8700-9_51

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