Section: New Software and Platforms

FiatLux

Keywords: Cellular automaton - Multi-agent - Distributed systems

Scientific Description: FiatLux is a discrete dynamical systems simulator that allows the user to experiment with various models and to perturb them. It includes 1D and 2D cellular automata, moving agents, interacting particle systems, etc. Its main feature is to allow users to change the type of updating, for example from a deterministic parallel updating to an asynchronous random updating. FiatLux has a Graphical User Interface and can also be launched in a batch mode for the experiments that require statistics.

Functional Description: FiatLux is a cellular automata simulator in Java specially designed for the study of the robustness of the models. Its main distinctive features is to allow to perturb the updating of the system (synchrony rate) and to perturb the topology of the grid.

• Participants: Nazim Fatès and Olivier Boure

• Partners: ENS Lyon - Université de Lorraine

• Contact: Nazim Fatès

• URL: http://fiatlux.loria.fr/