EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION AND EMERGENT MODELING OF NATURAL PHENOMENA
Cellular Automata are discrete dynamical systems capable to produce interesting and heterogeneous emergent behaviors even in spite of simple local rules of evolution. In this review paper, an evolutionary methodology for evolving models of complex natural macroscopic systems through Macroscopic Cellular Automata is focused. Two examples of applications to the simulation of lava and debris flows, when compared with real cases of study, have confirmed the goodness of the approach, both in qualitative and quantitative terms.