Noun
The word is derived from automaton
of Automaton
Source: Webster's dictionaryThey belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets. Edith Wharton
Problem 9. What is the correspondence between cellular automata and continuous systems? Stephen Wolfram
2003 Canberra firestorm Cellular automata models have increasingly been used to model forest fire events. Source: Internet
A cross-platform (Windows, Macintosh, Linux and also iOS and Android) open-source simulation system for Life and other cellular automata, by Andrew Trevorrow and Tomas Rokicki. Source: Internet
Another formalism mathematically equivalent to regular expressions, Finite automata are used in circuit design and in some kinds of problem-solving. Source: Internet
Cellular automata (CA), neural networks (NN), artificial intelligence (AI), and artificial life (ALife) are related fields, but they do not try to describe general (universal) complex (singular) systems. Source: Internet