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This paper presents optimizations to improve the scalability of reachability analysis on a subclass of hybrid automata extended with stochasticity. The optimizations target different components of the analysis, such as quantifier…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jonas Stübbe , Anne Remke , Erika Ábrahám

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) models have shown remarkable capacity for pattern formation and complex global behaviors stemming from local coordination. However, in the original implementation of NCA, cells are incapable of adjusting their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Ettore Randazzo , Alexander Mordvintsev , Craig Fouts

This paper concerns $\mu$-limit sets of cellular automata: sets of configurations made of words whose probability to appear does not vanish with time, starting from an initial $\mu$-random configuration. More precisely, we investigate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Laurent Boyer , Martin Delacourt , Victor Poupet , Mathieu Sablik , Guillaume Theyssier

In this work, a wide family of LFSR-based sequence generators, the so-called Clock-Controlled Shrinking Generators (CCSGs), has been analyzed and identified with a subset of linear Cellular Automata (CA). In fact, a pair of linear models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-14 Amparo Fúster-Sabater , Dolores de la Guía-Martínez

A sliding-window algorithm of window size $t$ is an algorithm whose current operation depends solely on the last $t$ symbols read. We construct pseudorandom generators (PRGs) for low-space randomized sliding-window algorithms that have…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Augusto Modanese

This paper introduces Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata (DiffLogic CA), a novel combination of Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) and Differentiable Logic Gates Networks (DLGNs). The fundamental computation units of the model are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Pietro Miotti , Eyvind Niklasson , Ettore Randazzo , Alexander Mordvintsev

Cellular automata (CA) have been utilized for decades as discrete models of many physical, mathematical, chemical, biological, and computing systems. The most widely known form of CA, the elementary cellular automaton (ECA), has been…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2013-10-15 Lucas Kang

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 2007-05-23 Jean-Baptiste Rouquier , Michel Morvan

We discuss various properties of Probabilistic Cellular Automata, such as the structure of the set of stationary measures and multiplicity of stationary measures (or phase transition) for reversible models.

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-28 Paolo Dai Pra , Pierre-Yves Louis , Sylvie Roelly

Gauge-invariance is a fundamental concept in physics---known to provide the mathematical justification for all four fundamental forces. In this paper, we provide discrete counterparts to the main gauge theoretical concepts, directly in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Pablo Arrighi , Giuseppe Di Molfetta , Nathanaël Eon

We show techniques of analyzing complex dynamics of cellular automata (CA) with chaotic behaviour. CA are well known computational substrates for studying emergent collective behaviour, complexity, randomness and interaction between order…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2012-03-29 Genaro J. Martinez , Andrew Adamatzky , Ramon Alonso-Sanz

We discovered that certain patterns called injective patterns remain stable during the revolution process, allowing us to create many reversible CA simply by using them to design the revolution rules. By examining injective patterns, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Defu Lin , Weilin Chen , Chen Wang , Junchi Ma , Chao Wang

A minimalistic model for chimera states is presented. The model is a cellular automaton (CA) which depends on only one adjustable parameter, the range of the nonlocal coupling, and is built from elementary cellular automata and the majority…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-05-25 Vladimir García-Morales

We present a preliminary study of a new class of two-input cellular automata called eventually number-conserving cellular automata characterized by the property of evolving after a finite number of time steps to states whose number of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Nino Boccara

The cellular automata (CA) approach to traffic modeling is extended to allow for spatially homogeneous steady state solutions that cover a two dimensional region in the flow-density plane. Hence these models fulfill a basic postulate of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Boris S. Kerner , Sergey L. Klenov , Dietrich E. Wolf

Cellular automata are arrays of finite state machines that can exist in a finite number of states. These machines update their states simultaneously based on specific local rules that govern their interactions. This framework provides a…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-08-11 Genaro J. Martinez , Andrew Adamatzky , Guanrong Chen

We present a new cellular data processing scheme, a hybrid of existing cellular automata (CA) and gate array architectures, which is optimized for realization at the quantum scale. For conventional computing, the CA-like external clocking…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. C. Benjamin , N. F. Johnson

We study timed systems in which some timing features are unknown parameters. Parametric timed automata (PTAs) are a classical formalism for such systems but for which most interesting problems are undecidable. Notably, the parametric…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Étienne André , Didier Lime , Olivier H. Roux

An introduction to cellular automata (both deterministic and probabilistic) with examples. Definition of deterministic automata, dynamical properties, damage spreading and Lyapunov exponents; probabilistic automata and Markov processes,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Franco Bagnoli

Cyclic cellular automata (CCA) are models of excitable media. Started from random initial conditions, they produce several different kinds of spatial structure, depending on their control parameters. We introduce new tools from information…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Cosma Rohilla Shalizi , Kristina Lisa Shalizi