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After reviewing a few key quantities of information theory, we investigate in this paper the behaviour of multi-information in elementary cellular automata. It will turn out that the usual classification by Wolfram is not well supported in terms of this information measure, or, more likely, that multi-information is blind to the kind of complexity displayed by those automata.
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Chliamovitch, G., Chopard, B., Dupuis, A. (2014). On the Dynamics of Multi-information in Cellular Automata. In: Wąs, J., Sirakoulis, G.C., Bandini, S. (eds) Cellular Automata. ACRI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8751. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11520-7_10
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