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Cellular automata (CAs) are dynamical systems which exhibit complex global behavior from simple local interaction and computation. Since the inception of cellular automaton (CA) by von Neumann in 1950s, it has attracted the attention of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Kamalika Bhattacharjee , Nazma Naskar , Souvik Roy , Sukanta Das

We present a new Life-like cellular automaton (CA) capable of logic universality -- the X-rule. The CA is 2D, binary, with a Moore neighborhood and $\lambda$ parameter similar to the game-of-Life, but is not based on birth/survival and is…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2017-09-11 José Manuel Gómez Soto , Andrew Wuensche

Can we quantify the change of complexity throughout evolutionary processes? We attempt to address this question through an empirical approach. In very general terms, we simulate two simple organisms on a computer that compete over limited…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Alyssa Adams , Hector Zenil , Eduardo Hermo Reyes , Joost Joosten

Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) are bio-inspired dynamical systems in which identical cells iteratively apply a learned local update rule to self-organize into complex patterns, exhibiting regeneration, robustness, and spontaneous dynamics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ehsan Pajouheshgar , Yitao Xu , Ali Abbasi , Alexander Mordvintsev , Wenzel Jakob , Sabine Süsstrunk

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

We study a quantum cellular automaton (QCA) whose time-evolution is defined from global transition function of classical cellular automata (CA). In order to investigate natural transformations from CA to QCA, the present QCA includes CA…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Norio Inui , Shuichi Inokuchi , Yoshihiro Mizoguchi , Norio Konno

The emergent dynamics in spacetime diagrams of cellular automata (CAs) is often organised by means of a number of behavioural classes. Whilst classification of elementary CAs is feasible and well-studied, non-elementary CAs are generally…

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

We propose a characteristic representation ofone-dimensional and 2-state, 3-neighbor cellular automaton rules, which describes an effective form of each rule after many time steps. Simulated results of the representation show that complex…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Y. Kayama , H. Anada , Y. Imamura , 9 pages

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

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 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

Shedding light onto how biological systems represent, process and store information in noisy environments is a key and challenging goal. A stimulating, though controversial, hypothesis poses that operating in dynamical regimes near the edge…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-07-14 Guillermo B. Morales , Miguel A. Muñoz

In this article, we discuss the family of cellular automata generated by so-called idempotent cellular automata (CA G such that G^2 = G) on the full shift. We prove a characterization of products of idempotent CA, and show examples of CA…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Ville Salo

We introduce several concepts such as prime and composite rule, tools and methods for causal composition and decomposition. We discover and prove new universality results in ECA, namely, that the Boolean composition of ECA rules 51 and 118,…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2018-02-27 Jürgen Riedel , Hector Zenil

A transition from asymmetric to symmetric patterns in time-dependent extended systems is described. It is found that one dimensional cellular automata, started from fully random initial conditions, can be forced to evolve into complex…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 J. R. Sanchez , R. Lopez-Ruiz

Classical cellular automata represent a class of explicit discrete spacetime lattice models in which complex large-scale phenomena emerge from simple deterministic rules. With the goal to uncover different physically distinct classes of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-27 Rustem Sharipov , Matija Koterle , Sašo Grozdanov , Tomaž Prosen

In this paper we review previous work and present new work concerning the relationship between dynamical systems theory and computation. In particular, we review work by Langton \cite{Langton90} and Packard \cite{Packard88} on the…

adap-org · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Mitchell , J. P. Crutchfield , P. T. Hraber

We say that a Cellular Automata (CA) is coalescing when its execution on two distinct (random) initial configurations in the same asynchronous mode (the same cells are updated in each configuration at each time step) makes both…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-12-13 Jean-Baptiste Rouquier , Michel Morvan

Elementary cellular automata (ECA) is a widely studied one-dimensional processing methodology where the successive iteration of the automaton may lead to the recreation of a rich pattern dynamic. Recently, cellular automata have been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Alejandro Morán , Christiam F. Frasser , Josep L. Rosselló

This paper describes a new concept of cellular automaton (CA). XCA consists of a set of arcs (edges) that correspond to cells in CA. At a particular time, the arcs are connected to a directed graph. With each time step, the arcs exchange…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-07-19 Walter Eckel