[Focus on] Complex Systems Research activities

Complex systems research activities of the CAS³C³ team are focused on

  • Discrete dynamical systems.
  • Parallel graph rewriting and Graph transformations.
  • Graph models for biology and astrophysics.

DEM-Systems

DEM-systems are a class of discrete dynamical systems with properties of both cellular automata and L-systems. They are defined as sequences on a one-dimensional loop with rules governing dynamics in which new sites can be created, depending on the states of a neighbourhood of sites, and complex behaviour can be generated. Unlike for CA, finite initial sequences can produce positive spatial entropy over time.

However, even in cases where the entropy is zero, considerable complexity is possible, especially when the sequence length grows to infinity, and we demonstrate and study behaviours of DEM-systems including fragmentation of sequences, self-reproducing patterns, self-similar but irregular patterns, patterns that not only produce new sites but produce producers of new sites, and sequences whose growth rate is sublinear, linear, quadratic, cubic, or exponential.

Références: hal-00961656 hal-00953772 hal-01326782


Parallel graph rewriting with overlapping rules

Considering an initial graph g and a system of rewriting rules R={l~i~ -> r~i~, i=1... n}, we rewrite the graph g into a graph g' by using, simultaneously, the rules of R whose left-hand sides, l~i~, match subgraphs of g. All the occurrences of the l~i~ in g are replacing by an instance of r~i~. In order to deal with match overlapping, we introduce the notion of pregraphs and follow the rewriting modulo approach.

GPaR is a parallel graph rewriting software implemented in C++ with a graphical user interface. It can be used in a large variety of rewriting problems including cellular automata, L-systems and fractal systems.

Références: hal-01408834 hal-02084261 hal-01985043 hal-01898363


Split thickness of graphs

We examine the planar split thickness of a graph, that is, the smallest k such that the graph is k-splittable into a planar graph. A k-split operation substitutes a vertex v by at most k new vertices such that each neighbor of v is connected to at least one of the new vertices.

hal-01819362 hal-01326779


Simulating aggregates of bivalents in 2n=40 mouse meiotic spermatocytes through inhomogeneous percolation processes

We show that an inhomogeneous Bernoulli site percolation process running upon a fullerene's dual C'~1200~ can be used for representing bivalents attached to the nuclear envelope in mouse Mus M. Domesticus 2n=40 meiotic spermatocytes during pachytene. It is shown that the induced clustering generated by overlapping percolation domains correctly reproduces the probability distribution observed in the experiments (data) after fine tuning the parameters.

Références: hal-01823737 hal-01814944 hal-01982363


Simulation of hierarchical n-body systems based on dynamical trees

We present an algorithm to simulate the gravitational interaction of a large number of point masses. This problem is known as the n-body problem in physics and astronomy. The algorithm detects and uses hierarchical structure present in the current state of the point masses to speed up the computation. The structure is represented as a dynamical tree.

Références: hal-00769677