CELLULAR AUTOMATA AND SIMULATION OF SPATIAL COMPLEXITY OF URBAN SYSTEMS:HISTORY,PRESENT SITUATION AND FUTURE
阐述了元胞自动机理论在城市地理学中的应用，包括其起源、发展、模型要素及模拟案例，并指出转换规则构建缺乏标准是当前主要瓶颈，未来出路在于用地理元胞自动机发展理论地理学。
Cellular automata(CA) have become important methods as a kind of modeling experiment tools for geographical researches,and will probably be,as M.Batty pointed out,a paradigm for the 21st century.In this paper,we expounded the origin and development of CA theory,the context of cellular geography,the basic elements of CA models,and the applications of CA simulation to urban geography.One of the discouraging problems is without a normal way to construct transition function with rules,which is certainly hampering the development and applications of urban geo-CA theory,and the outlet maybe lies in using geo-CA to develop theoretical geography which will positively in turn provide guidance for geo-CA studies