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Reversible Cellular Automata (RCA) are a particular kind of shift-invariant transformations characterized by a dynamics composed only of disjoint cycles. They have many applications in the simulation of physical systems, cryptography and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Luca Mariot , Stjepan Picek , Domagoj Jakobovic , Alberto Leporati

Cryptographic schemes using one-dimensional, three-neighbor cellular automata as a primitive have been put forth since at least 1985. Early results showed good statistical pseudorandomness, and the simplicity of their construction made them…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Jason Spencer

Generation of pseudo random sequences by cellular automata, as well as by hybrid cellular automata is surveyed. An application to the fast evaluation and FPGA implementation of some classes of boolean functions is sketched out.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-07-25 Bruno Martin , Patrick Solé

Cellular Automata (CA) have been extensively used to implement symmetric cryptographic primitives, such as pseudorandom number generators and S-boxes. However, most of the research in this field, except the very early works, seems to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Luca Mariot

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

Cellular automata (CAs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are closely related due to the local nature of information processing. The connection between these topics is beneficial to both related fields, for conceptual as well as…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-09-05 Michiel Rollier , Aisling J. Daly , Odemir M. Bruno , Jan M. Baetens

Cellular automata (CAs) are fully-discrete dynamical models that have received much attention due to the fact that their relatively simple setup can nonetheless express highly complex phenomena. Despite the model's theoretical maturity and…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-07-10 Michiel Rollier , Kallil M. C. Zielinski , Aisling J. Daly , Odemir M. Bruno , Jan M. Baetens

Due to their simple construction, LFSRs are commonly used as building blocks in various random number generators. Nonlinear feedforward logic is incorporated in LFSRs to increase the linear complexity of the generated sequence. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Suman Roy , Srinivasan Krishnaswamy

Cellular automata (CA) are discrete-time dynamical systems with local update rules on a lattice. Despite their elementary definition, CA support a wide spectrum of macroscopic phenomena central to statistical physics: equilibrium and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Mihir Metkar , Neha Sah , Yichen Zhou

Reversible Cellular Automata (RCA) are a physics-like model of computation consisting of an array of identical cells, evolving in discrete time steps by iterating a global evolution G. Further, G is required to be shift-invariant (it acts…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-01-27 Pablo Arrighi , Vincent Nesme

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 (CAs) are computational models that can capture the essential features of systems in which global behavior emerges from the collective effect of simple components, which interact locally. During the last decades, CAs have…

The classical dynamical systems model of continuous stirred tank reactors (CSTR) in which a first order chemical reaction takes place is reformulated in terms of stochastic cellular automata by extending previous works of Seyborg (1997) and…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 J. E. Perez-Terrazas , V. Ibarra-Junquera , H. C. Rosu

The cellular automaton is a widely known model of both reversible and irreversible computations. The family of reversible second-order cellular automata considered in this work is appropriate both for construction of logic gates and…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-05-10 Alexander Yu. Vlasov

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

Linear constrained switching systems are linear switched systems whose switching sequences are constrained by a deterministic finite automaton. This work investigates how to generate a sequence of matrices with an asymptotic growth rate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

Linear-feedback shift register (LFSR) based pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) has applications in a plethora of fields. The issue of being linear is generally circumvented by introducing non-linearities as per the required applications,…

A simple binary model to compute the degree of balancedness in the output sequence of LFSR-combinational generators has been developed. The computational method is based exclusively on the handling of binary strings by means of logic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-14 Amparo Fúster-Sabater , Pedro García-Mochales

A method for studying the qualitative dynamical properties of abstract computing machines based on the approximation of their program-size complexity using a general lossless compression algorithm is presented. It is shown that the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-01-24 Hector Zenil

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