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In this paper, we propose a new approach for building cellular automata to solve real-world segmentation problems. We design and train a cellular automaton that can successfully segment high-resolution images. We consider a colony that…

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We present a new classification of elementary cellular automata. It is based on the structure of the network of states, connected with the transitions between them; the latter are determined by the automaton rule. Recently an algorithm has…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2013-04-23 Malgorzata J. Krawczyk

We present a preliminary study of a new class of two-input cellular automata called eventually number-conserving cellular automata characterized by the property of evolving after a finite number of time steps to states whose number of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Nino Boccara

A cellular automaton is a deterministic and exactly computable dynamical system which mimics certain fundamental aspects of physical dynamics such as spatial locality and finite entropy. CA systems can be constructed which have additional…

comp-gas · Physics 2007-05-23 Norman Margolus

A cellular automaton (CA) is a parallel synchronous computing model, which consists in a juxtaposition of finite automata (cells) whose state evolves according to that of their neighbors. Its trace is the set of infinite words representing…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-15 Julien Cervelle , Enrico Formenti , Pierre Guillon

We Propose A Novel Automaton Model which uses Arithmetic Operations as the Evolving Rules, each cell has the states of the Natural Numbers k = (N), a radius of r = 1/2 and operates on an arbitrary input size. The Automaton reads an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Abdulrhman Elnekiti

Cellular automata are a class of computational models based on simple rules and algorithms that can simulate a wide range of complex phenomena. However, when using conventional computers, these 'simple' rules are only encapsulated at the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Gordon H. Y. Li , Christian R. Leefmans , James Williams , Alireza Marandi

Cellular automata are arrays of finite state machines that can exist in a finite number of states. These machines update their states simultaneously based on specific local rules that govern their interactions. This framework provides a…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-08-11 Genaro J. Martinez , Andrew Adamatzky , Guanrong Chen

Cellular automata are a discrete dynamical system which models massively parallel computation. Much attention is devoted to computations with small time complexity for which the parallelism may provide further possibilities. In this paper,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Anaël Grandjean , Gaétan Richard , Véronique Terrier

This talk advocates intrinsic universality as a notion to identify simple cellular automata with complex computational behavior. After an historical introduction and proper definitions of intrinsic universality, which is discussed with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-06-18 Nicolas Ollinger

The Game of Life cellular automaton is a classical example of a massively parallel collision-based computing device. The automaton exhibits mobile patterns, gliders, and generators of the mobile patterns, glider guns, in its evolution. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 J. -P. Rennard

Cellular automata are a set of computational models in discrete space that have a discrete time evolution defined by neighbourhood rules. They are used to simulate many complex systems in physics and science in general. In this work,…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-05-12 Luca Bertolani , Andrea Idini

In this paper, we construct a new weakly universal cellular automaton on the ternary heptagrid. The previous result, obtained by the same author and Y. Song required six states only. This time, the number of states is four. This is the best…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-13 Maurice Margenstern

Quantum cellular automata consist in arrays of identical finite-dimensional quantum systems, evolving in discrete-time steps by iterating a unitary operator G. Moreover the global evolution G is required to be causal (it propagates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Pablo Arrighi

In a probabilistic cellular automaton in which all local transitions have positive probability, the problem of keeping a bit of information indefinitely is nontrivial, even in an infinite automaton. Still, there is a solution in 2…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Peter Gacs

Cellular automata are capable of developing complex behaviors based on simple local interactions between their elements. Some of these characteristics have been used to propose and improve meta-heuristics for global optimization; however,…

Motivated by questions in biology and distributed computing, we investigate the behaviour of particular cellular automata, modelled as one-dimensional arrays of identical finite automata. We investigate what sort of self-stabilising…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-14 Alan Gibbons , Martyn Amos

Physical universality of a cellular automaton was defined by Janzing in 2010 as the ability to implement an arbitrary transformation of spatial patterns. In 2014, Schaeffer gave a construction of a two-dimensional physically universal…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Ville Salo , Ilkka Törmä

We introduce a quantum cellular automaton that achieves approximate phase-covariant cloning of qubits. The automaton is optimized for 1-to-2N economical cloning. The use of the automaton for cloning allows us to exploit different foliations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 G. M. D'Ariano , C. Macchiavello , M. Rossi

Number-conserving (or {\em conservative}) cellular automata have been used in several contexts, in particular traffic models, where it is natural to think about them as systems of interacting particles. In this article we consider several…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 Andres Moreira , Nino Boccara , Eric Goles