Interactive Particle Systems is a branch of Probability Theory with
close connections to Mathematical Physics and Mathematical Biology. In
1985, the author wrote a book (T. Liggett, Interacting Particle System,
ISBN 3-540-96069) that treated the subject as it was at that time. The
present book takes three of the most important models in the area, and
traces advances in our understanding of them since 1985. In so doing,
many of the most useful techniques in the field are explained and
developed, so that they can be applied to other models and in other
contexts. Extensive Notes and References sections discuss other work on
these and related models. Readers are expected to be familiar with
analysis and probability at the graduate level, but it is not assumed
that they have mastered the material in the 1985 book. This book is
intended for graduate students and researchers in Probability Theory,
and in related areas of Mathematics, Biology and Physics.