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In this exploratory paper we introduce the problem of cognitive agents that learn how to modify their environment according to local sensing to reach a global goal. We concentrate on discrete dynamics (cellular automata) on a…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2026-04-14 Franco Bagnoli , Bassem Sellami , Amira Mouakher , Samira El Yacoubi

We study discrete dynamical systems through the topological concepts of limit set, which consists of all points that can be reached arbitrarily late, and asymptotic set, which consists of all adhering values of orbits. In particular, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Guillon Pierre , Richard Gaétan

In this paper, we give an elaborate and understandable review of traffic cellular automata (TCA) models, which are a class of computationally efficient microscopic traffic flow models. TCA models arise from the physics discipline of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Sven Maerivoet , Bart De Moor

Cellular automata (CA) are dynamical systems on symbolic configurations on the lattice. They are also used as models of massively parallel computers. As dynamical systems, one would like to understand the effect of small random…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Irène Marcovici , Mathieu Sablik , Siamak Taati

We prove that there do not exist positively expansive cellular automata defined on the full k-ary tree shift (for k>=2). Moreover, we investigate some topological properties of these automata and their relationships, namely permutivity,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Gabriele Fici , Francesca Fiorenzi

We show techniques of analyzing complex dynamics of cellular automata (CA) with chaotic behaviour. CA are well known computational substrates for studying emergent collective behaviour, complexity, randomness and interaction between order…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2012-03-29 Genaro J. Martinez , Andrew Adamatzky , Ramon Alonso-Sanz

Deep learning techniques have recently demonstrated broad success in predicting complex dynamical systems ranging from turbulence to human speech, motivating broader questions about how neural networks encode and represent dynamical rules.…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2020-01-20 William Gilpin

This article presents a new characterization of controllability and regional controllability of Deterministic Cellular Automata (CA for short). It focuses on analyzing these problems within the framework of control theory, which have been…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Sara Dridi

In this paper, we explore relationships between two models of systems which are governed by only the local interactions of large collections of simple components: cellular automata (CA) and the abstract Tile Assembly Model (aTAM). While…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-09-09 Jacob Hendricks , Matthew J. Patitz

This paper explores the algebraic conditions under which a cellular automaton with a non-linear local rule exhibits surjectivity and reversibility. We also analyze the role of permutivity as a key factor influencing these properties and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Firas Ben Ramdhane , Alberto Dennunzio , Luciano Margara , Giuliamaria Menara

A general mathematical method is presented for the systematic construction of coupled map lattices (CMLs) out of deterministic cellular automata (CAs). The entire CA rule space is addressed by means of a universal map for CAs that we have…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-06-09 Vladimir García-Morales

This tutorial is about cellular automata that exhibit 'cold dynamics'. By this we mean zero entropy, stabilization of all orbits, trivial asymptotic dynamics, etc. These are purely transient irreversible dynamics, but they capture many…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2022-06-17 Guillaume Theyssier

Cellular Automata (CA) are commonly investigated as a particular type of dynamical systems, defined by shift-invariant local rules. In this paper, we consider instead CA as algebraic systems, focusing on the combinatorial designs induced by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Luca Manzoni , Luca Mariot , Giuliamaria Menara

We investigate critical properties of a class of number-conserving cellular automata (CA) which can be interpreted as deterministic models of traffic flow with anticipatory driving. These rules are among the only known CA rules for which…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-12-18 Henryk Fuks

Diam-mean equicontinuity is a dynamical property that has been of use in the study of non-periodic order. Using some type of "local" skew product between a shift and an odometer looking cellular automaton (CA), we will show there exists an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Luguis de los Santos Baños , Felipe García-Ramos

Cellular automata (CA) dynamics are ordered in terms of two global parameters, computable {\sl a priori} from the description of rules. While one of them (activity) has been used before, the second one is new; it estimates the average…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-22 P. -M. Binder

This paper studies complexity of recognition of classes of bounded configurations by a generalization of conventional cellular automata (CA) -- finite dynamic cellular automata (FDCA). Inspired by the CA-based models of biological and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Maxim Makatchev

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) models are trainable variations of traditional Cellular Automata (CA). Emergent motion in the patterns created by NCA has been successfully applied to synthesize dynamic textures. However, the conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yitao Xu , Ehsan Pajouheshgar , Sabine Süsstrunk

We extend Cellular Automata to time-varying discrete geometries. In other words we formalize, and prove theorems about, the intuitive idea of a discrete manifold which evolves in time, subject to two natural constraints: the evolution does…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Pablo Arrighi , Clément Chouteau , Stefano Facchini , Simon Martiel

Within the class of stochastic cellular automata models of traffic flows, we look at the velocity dependent randomization variant (VDR-TCA) whose parameters take on a specific set of extreme values. These initial conditions lead us to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-29 Sven Maerivoet , Bart De Moor