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Cellular automata generate spatially extended, temporally persistent emergent structures from local update rules. No general method derives the mechanisms of that generation from the rule itself; existing tools reconstruct structure from…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2026-04-02 Manuel Pita

Models of areas of physics in terms of cellular automata have become increasingly popular. Cellular automata (CAs) support the modeling of systems with discrete state component values and enforce the comprehensive specification of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Hans H. Diel

While for synchronous deterministic cellular automata there is an accepted definition of reversibility, the situation is less clear for asynchronous cellular automata. We first discuss a few possibilities and then investigate what we call…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Simon Wacker , Thomas Worsch

A definition for a class of asynchronous cellular arrays is proposed. An example of such asynchrony would be independent Poisson arrivals of cell iterations. The Ising model in the continuous time formulation of Glauber falls into this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Boris D. Lubachevsky

Cellular automata provide models of parallel computation based on cells, whose connectivity is given by an action of a monoid on the cells. At each step in the computation, every cell is decorated with a state that evolves in discrete steps…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Henning Basold , Chase Ford , Lulof Pirée

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

In the paper I sketch a theory of massively parallel proofs using cellular automata presentation of deduction. In this presentation inference rules play the role of cellular-automatic local transition functions. In this approach we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-11-15 Andrew Schumann

In this work we introduce a deterministic scheme of synchronization of linear and nonlinear cellular automata (CA) with complex behavior, connected through a master-slave coupling. By using a definition of Boolean derivative, we use the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-03-11 J. Garcia , P. Garcia

A Cellular Automata (CA) is a computing model of complex System using simple rule. In CA the problem space into number of cell and each cell can be one or several final state. Cells are affected by neighbours' to the simple rule. Cellular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Debasis Das , Abhishek Ray

A commonly used model for fault-tolerant computation is that of cellular automata. The essential difficulty of fault-tolerant computation is present in the special case of simply remembering a bit in the presence of faults, and that is the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-09-10 Mark McCann , Nicholas Pippenger

In this paper, a different perspective of constructing the CA models is proposed. Its kernel, the Local Symmetric Distribution Principle, relates to some fundamental concepts in physics, which maybe raise a wide interest. With a rich…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2010-07-27 Zan Pan

Cellular Automata(CA) is a discrete computing model which provides simple, flexible and efficient platform for simulating complicated systems and performing complex computation based on the neighborhoods information. CA consists of two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Debasis Das , Rajiv Misra

This paper designs an efficient two-class pattern classifier utilizing asynchronous cellular automata (ACAs). The two-state three-neighborhood one-dimensional ACAs that converge to fixed points from arbitrary seeds are used here for pattern…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-02-01 Biswanath Sethi , Souvik Roy , Sukanta Das

A class of queueing networks which consist of single-server fork-join nodes with infinite buffers is examined to derive a representation of the network dynamics in terms of max-plus algebra. For the networks, we present a common dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-06 Nikolai K. Krivulin

There are few known universality classes of absorbing phase transitions in one dimension and most models fall in the well-known directed percolation (DP) class. Synchronization is a transition to an absorbing state and this transition is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-25 Divya D. Joshi , Prashant M. Gade

This work studies some aspects of the computational power of fully asynchronous cellular automata (ACA). We deal with some notions of simulation between ACA and Turing Machines. In particular, we characterize the updating sequences…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Jérôme Chandesris , Alberto Dennunzio , Enrico Formenti , Luca Manzoni

We study probabilistic cellular automata (PCA) and quantum cellular automata (QCA) as frameworks for solving the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem. We first introduce a synchronous PCA whose dynamics drives the system toward the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Federico Dell'Anna , Matteo Grotti , Vito Giardinelli

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

Simulating a cellular automaton (CA) for t time-steps into the future requires t^2 serial computation steps or t parallel ones. However, certain CAs based on an Abelian group, such as addition mod 2, are termed ``linear'' because they obey…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-30 Cristopher Moore

The expanding cellular automata (XCA) variant of cellular automata is investigated and characterized from a complexity-theoretical standpoint. An XCA is a one-dimensional cellular automaton which can dynamically create new cells between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Augusto Modanese