“…Generally, the spectrum of possibilities of spatio-temporal structures that can be generated by coupled map lattices is extremely rich and has been extensively studied in the literature, the emphasis being on the bifurcation structure [Bunimovich et al (1996), Just (1995, Amritkar et al (1993)] [Gade et al (1993), Amritkar et al (1991), Pikovsky et al (1991)], Liapunov exponents [Yang et al (1996), Torcini et al (1997b), Kaneko (1986b)] [Isola et al (1990)], traveling waves [Carretero-González (1997)] [He et al (1997)], phase transition-like phenomena [Grassberger et al (1991), Cuche et al (1997), Blank (1997), Marcq et al (1996)] [Boldrighini et al (1995), Keller et al (1992a), Houlrik et al (1992)] [Miller et al (1993), Gielis et al (2000)], the existence of smooth invariant measures [Baladi et al (1998), Jiang et al (1998a), ] [Mackey et al (1995)], synchronization [Lemaitre et al (1999)] [Bagnoli et al (1999), de San Roman et al (1998), Jiang et al (1998b)] [Wang et al (1998), Ding et al (1997)], control [Gade (1998)] [Egolf et al (1998), Parekh et al (1998), Mondragon et al (1997)] [Ohishi et al (1995)] and many other properties. Applications for coupled map systems have been pointed out for various subjects, among them hydrodynamic turbulence [Beck (1994), Hilgers et al (1997b), …”