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A new kind of cellular automaton (CA) for the study of the dynamics of urban systems is proposed. The state of a cell is not described using a finite set, but by means of continuum variables. A population sector is included, taking into…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Vancheri , Paolo Giordano , Denise Andrey , Sergio Albeverio

We investigate one-dimensional Probabilistic Cellular Automata, called Diploid Elementary Cellular Automata (DECA), obtained as random mixture of two different Elementary Cellular Automata rules. All the cells are updated synchronously and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-28 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Francesca R. Nardi , Cristian Spitoni

This article is a presentation of specific recent results describing scaling limits of individual-based models. Thanks to them, we wish to relate the time-scales typical of demographic dynamics and natural selection to the parameters of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Aurélien Velleret

We analyze a probabilistic cellular automaton describing the dynamics of coexistence of a predator-prey system. The individuals of each species are localized over the sites of a lattice and the local stochastic updating rules are inspired…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-14 Tânia Tomé , Kelly C de Carvalho

Hierarchical structure is an essential part of complexity, important notion relevant for a wide range of applications ranging from biological population dynamics through robotics to social sciences. In this paper we propose a simple…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-26 Ivan Gotz , Isaak Rubinstein , Eugene Tsvetkov , Boris Zaltzman

The main problems in modeling interacting galaxies are the extended parameter space and the fairly high CPU costs of self-consistent N-body simulations. Therefore, traditional modeling techniques suffer from either extreme CPU demands or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ch. Theis , Ch. Gerds , Ch. Spinneker

Cellular Automata are discrete-time dynamical systems on a spatially extended discrete space which provide paradigmatic examples of nonlinear phenomena. Their stochastic generalizations, i.e., Probabilistic Cellular Automata (PCA), are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , P. -Y. Louis , W. M. Ruszel , C. Spitoni

Classical Cellular Automata (CCAs) are a powerful computational framework widely used to model complex systems driven by local interactions. Their simplicity lies in the use of a finite set of states and a uniform local rule, yet this…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-03-20 Enrico Formenti , Faizal Hafiz , Amelia Kunze , Davide La Torre

We study locally interacting processes in discrete time, often called probabilistic cellular automata, indexed by locally finite graphs. For infinite regular trees and certain generalized Galton-Watson trees, we show that the marginal…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Daniel Lacker , Kavita Ramanan , Ruoyu Wu

Cellular automata are fully-discrete, spatially-extended dynamical systems that evolve by simultaneously applying a local update function. Despite their simplicity, the induced global dynamic produces a stunning array of richly-structured,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-01 Adam Rupe , James P. Crutchfield

We investigate expressiveness, a parameter of one-dimensional cellular automata, in the context of simulated biological systems. The development of elementary cellular automata is interpreted in terms of biological systems, and biologically…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2013-04-09 Markus Redeker , Andrew Adamatzky , Genaro J. Martínez

Probabilistic cellular automata are prototypes of non equilibrium critical phenomena. This class of models includes among others the directed percolation problem (Domany Kinzel model) and the dynamical Ising model. The critical properties…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 Franco Bagnoli , Paolo Palmerini , Raul Rechtman

We study the dynamics of (synchronous) one-dimensional cellular automata with cyclical boundary conditions that evolve according to the majority rule with radius $ r $. We introduce a notion that we term cell stability with which we express…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Yonatan Nakar , Dana Ron

We derive a class of cellular automata for the Schr\"odinger Hamiltonian, including scalar and vector potentials. It is based on a multi-split of the Hamiltonian, resulting in a multi-step unitary evolution operator in discrete time and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Kees van Berkel , Jan de Graaf , Kees van Hee

Microbiological systems evolve to fulfill their tasks with maximal efficiency. The immune system is a remarkable example, where self-non self distinction is accomplished by means of molecular interaction between self proteins and antigens,…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2013-08-26 Marcio Argollo de Menezes , Edgardo Brigatti , Veit Schwämmle

Particle-like objects are observed to propagate and interact in many spatially extended dynamical systems. For one of the simplest classes of such systems, one-dimensional cellular automata, we establish a rigorous upper bound on the number…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-10-31 Wim Hordijk , Cosma Rohilla Shalizi , James P. Crutchfield

We define and explore in simulation several rules for the local evolution of generative rules for 1D and 2D cellular automata. Our implementation uses strategies from conceptual blending. We discuss potential applications to modelling…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Joseph Corneli , Ewen Maclean

We present a model of the Galactic Habitable Zone (GHZ), described in terms of the spatial and temporal dimensions of the Galaxy that may favour the development of complex life. The Milky Way galaxy is modelled using a computational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Michael G. Gowanlock , David R. Patton , Sabine M. McConnell

We introduce a stochastic cellular automaton with power law spatial decaying long-range interactions. In some limit this model reduces to the Domany-Kinzel cellular automaton. Monte Carlo and mean field calculations of the phase diagram of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sergio A. Cannas

This paper reports on patterns exhibiting self-replication with spontaneous, inheritable mutations and exponential genetic drift in Neural Cellular Automata. Despite the models not being explicitly trained for mutation or inheritability,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Lana Sinapayen