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	سلولار اتوماتا	مدل‌های انتشار شبکه‌ای
حوزه	شبیه‌سازی	تحلیل شبکه
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	1940s–1950s (formalized); 1970 (Conway's Game of Life); 2002 (Wolfram's systematic classification)	1927 (epidemiological compartmental); 2003 (social influence cascade)
پدیدآور	John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam (1940s–1950s); popularized by John Conway (1970) and Stephen Wolfram (1980s–2002)	Kermack & McKendrick (SIR/SIS, 1927); Kempe, Kleinberg & Tardos (Independent Cascade, 2003)
نوع	Grid-based computational simulation model	Stochastic / deterministic simulation on graphs
منبع بنیادین	Wolfram, S. (2002). A New Kind of Science. Wolfram Media. ISBN: 978-1579550080	Kermack, W.O. & McKendrick, A.G. (1927). A Contribution to the Mathematical Theory of Epidemics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, 115(772), 700-721.
نام‌های دیگر	CA, Hücresel Otomat (Cellular Automata), lattice model, grid-based simulation	epidemic spreading models, compartmental models, influence propagation models, Ağ Yayılım Modelleri (SIR, SIS, Independent Cascade)
مرتبط	5	5
خلاصه	Cellular automata (CA) is a grid-based computational simulation model, first formalized by John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam in the 1940s–1950s and brought to wide attention by John Conway's Game of Life (1970) and Stephen Wolfram's systematic classification (2002), in which a lattice of cells — each holding a finite discrete state — evolves in discrete time steps according to local neighborhood interaction rules, causing complex global patterns to emerge from simple local specifications.	Network diffusion models are a family of compartmental and probabilistic frameworks that simulate how information, disease, or innovation spreads across a connected system. Rooted in the mathematical epidemiology of Kermack and McKendrick (1927), the SIR and SIS models partition nodes into states and track transitions driven by contact rates and recovery probabilities. The Independent Cascade and Linear Threshold models, formalised by Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (2003), extend this logic to social influence, modelling how activation propagates through a network one neighbour at a time.