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The CARPET programming language

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CAMELot is an  environment for the programming and seamlessly parallel execution of Cellular Automata. The system supports CARPET, a purpose-built language for CA programming. It offers a programming environment and a Graphical User Interface which enables the user to interact with the system while running a simulation and to view visualisation of the simulated data. It also includes a customisable facility to produce traces of the simulation in a specified format thus allowing to post-process the output of the run by means of an external tool. The system has been developed as part of the COLOMBO Esprit project n. 24907.

Since its simulator is very flexible with regard to cellular space sizes, cell structures, neighborhood structures and cellular automata rules, CAMELot can simulate almost all 1-, 2-D or 3-D cellular automata models.

Related Papers:

1.       Spezzano G., Talia D., "CAMELot: A Parallel Cellular Environment for Modelling Complexity", AI*IA Notizie,  no 2, pp. 9-15, June 2001.

2.       Spezzano G., Talia D., “Programming Cellular Automata for Computational Science on Parallel Computers”, Future Generation Computer Systems, North-Holland, Amsterdam, vol. 16, n. 2-3, pp. 203-216, 1999.

3.       Spezzano G., Talia D., "The CARPET Programming Environment for Solving Scientific Problems on Parallel Computers " Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, NOVA Science Publishers, vol. 1, n. 3, pp. 49-61, 1998.

4.       Spezzano G., Talia D., “Designing Parallel Models of Soil Contamination by the Carpet Language”, Future Generation Computer Systems, North-Holland, Amsterdam, vol. 13, n. 4-5, pp. 291-302, 1998.

5.       Di Gregorio S., Rongo R., Spataro W., Spezzano G., Talia D., “High Performance Scientific Computing on a Parallel Cellular Environment”, Future Generation Computer Systems, North-Holland, Amsterdam, vol. 12, n.5, pp. 357-369, 1997.

7.       Spezzano G., Talia D., Di Gregorio S., Rongo R., Spataro W., “A Parallel Cellular Tool for Interactive Modeling and Simulation”,  IEEE Computational Science & Engineering,  vol. 3,  n° 3, pp.33-43, 1996.

8.       Cannataro M., Di Gregorio S., Rongo R., Spataro W., Spezzano G., Talia D., “A Parallel Cellular Automata Environment on Multicomputers for Computational Science”, Parallel Computing, North Holland, vol. 21,  n. 5,  pp. 803-824, 1995.