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We construct a time-optimal quasi-solution of the firing mob synchronisation problem over finite, connected, and undirected multigraphs whose maximum degrees are uniformly bounded by a constant. It is only a quasi-solution because its…
The firing squad synchronization problem (FSSP) on cellular automata has been studied extensively for more than forty years, and a rich variety of synchronization algorithms have been proposed for not only one-dimensional arrays but…
In this paper, we come back on the notion of local simulation allowing to transform a cellular automaton into a closely related one with different local encoding of information. This notion is used to explore solutions of the Firing Squad…
In cellular automata with multiple speeds for each cell $i$ there is a positive integer $p_i$ such that this cell updates its state still periodically but only at times which are a multiple of $p_i$. Additionally there is a finite upper…
For a finite state automaton, a synchronizing sequence is an input sequence that takes all the states to the same state. Checking the existence of a synchronizing sequence and finding a synchronizing sequence, if one exists, can be…
The firing squad synchronization problem (FSSP, for short) is a problem in automata theory introduced in 1957 by John Myhill. Its goal is to design a finite automaton A such that, if copies of A are placed in a line and connected and are…
In this paper, we present a 4-state solution to the Firing Squad Synchronization Problem (FSSP) based on hybrid rule 60/102 Cellular Automata(CA). This solution solves the problem on the line of length 2^n with two generals. Previous work…
A synchronizing word of a deterministic finite complete automaton is a word whose action maps every state to a single one. Finding a shortest or a short synchronizing word is a central computational problem in the theory of synchronizing…
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…
We study the computational complexity of various problems related to synchronization of weakly acyclic automata, a subclass of widely studied aperiodic automata. We provide upper and lower bounds on the length of a shortest word…
We present different classes of solutions to the Firing Squad Synchronization Problem on networks of different shapes. The nodes are finite state processors that work at unison discrete steps. The networks considered are the line, the ring…
We consider the first problem that appears in any application of synchronizing automata, namely, the problem of deciding whether or not a given $n$-state $k$-letter automaton is synchronizing. First we generalize results from…
Cellular automata are often used to model systems in physics, social sciences, biology that are inherently asynchronous. Over the past 20 years, studies have demonstrated that the behavior of cellular automata drastically changed under…
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,…
An automaton is synchronizing if there is a word that maps all states onto the same state. \v{C}ern\'{y}'s conjecture on the length of the shortest such word is probably the most famous open problem in automata theory. We consider the…
Firing Squad Synchronisation on Cellular Automata is the dynamical synchronisation of finitely many cells without any prior knowledge of their range. This can be conceived as a signal with an infinite speed. Most of the proposed…
We study extremal and algorithmic questions of subset and careful synchronization in monotonic automata. We show that several synchronization problems that are hard in general automata can be solved in polynomial time in monotonic automata,…
In this work, we investigate the computational aspects of asynchronous cellular automata (ACAs), a modification of cellular automata in which cells update independently, following an asynchronous schedule. We introduce flip automata…
We consider several problems relating to strongly-connected directed networks of identical finite-state processors that work synchronously in discrete time steps. The conceptually simplest of these is the Wake Up and Report Problem; this is…
We solve the Firing Squad Synchronization Problem (FSSP), for P systems based on digraphs with simplex channels, where communication is restricted by the direction of structural arcs. Previous work on FSSP for P systems focused exclusively…