@InProceedings{Sampson05, title = "{L}azy {C}ellular {A}utomata with {C}ommunicating {P}rocesses", author= "Sampson, Adam T. and Welch, Peter H. and Barnes, Frederick R. M.", editor= "Broenink, Jan F. and Roebbers, Herman and Sunter, Johan P. E. and Welch, Peter H. and Wood, David C.", pages = "165--175", booktitle= "{C}ommunicating {P}rocess {A}rchitectures 2005", isbn= "978-1-58603-561-7", year= "2005", month= "sep", abstract= "Cellular automata (CAs) are good examples of systems in which large numbers of autonomous entities exhibit emergent behaviour.Using the occam-pi and JCSP communicating process systems, we show how to construct \&\#8220;lazy\&\#8221; and \&\#8220;just-in-time\&\#8221; models of cellular automata, which permit very efficient parallel simulation of sparse CA populations on shared-memory and distributed systems." }