Model-Based Cellular Automata on Spread of Rumours
Authors:
MAITANMI Olusola
Publication Type: Journal article
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Abstract
This paper illustrates that cellular automata can drive the spread of gossips in our environment using
stochastic model. The spread of rumour is encouraged by the use of homogeneous cells which
can either be allowed or disallowed which is further influenced by a parity model in modelling physical
science which comprises four cells signifying the white cell as never heard and the black cell as having
heard. This generates a rule which determines if a cell lives or dies. We can observe that if the cell is
white, and it has one or more black neighbours, consider each black neighbour in turn. For each black neighbour, change to black with some speciï¬c probability, otherwise remain white. While on the
other hand, once a cell becomes black, the cell remains black.