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Cellular automata are synchronous discrete dynamical systems used to describe complex dynamic behaviors. The dynamic is based on local interactions between the components, these are defined by a finite graph with an initial node coloring…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Volker Turau

This study introduces Skewed Fully Asynchronous Cellular Automata (SACA), a novel update scheme in cellular automata that updates the states of only two consecutive and adjacent cells, such as ci and ci+1, simultaneously at each time step.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Virendra Kumar Gautam

This paper gives a fresh look at network synchronization. Here we no longer analyze it from the view of mathematics, such as graph theory, while we probe into one from control theory. First, we analyze the synchronization region using the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Jilie Zhang

We consider asynchronous networks of identical finite (independent of network's size or topology) automata. Our automata drive any network from any initial configuration of states, to a coherent one in which it can carry efficiently any…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Gene Itkis , Leonid A. Levin

The NP-complete graph problem Cluster Editing seeks to transform a static graph into a disjoint union of cliques by making the fewest possible edits to the edges. We introduce a natural interpretation of this problem in temporal graphs,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Cristiano Bocci , Chiara Capresi , Kitty Meeks , John Sylvester

An edge cover of a graph is a set of edges such that every vertex has at least an adjacent edge in it. Previously, approximation algorithm for counting edge covers is only known for 3 regular graphs and it is randomized. We design a very…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Chengyu Lin , Jingcheng Liu , Pinyan Lu

It is shown in this note that approximating the number of independent sets in a $k$-uniform linear hypergraph with maximum degree at most $\Delta$ is NP-hard if $\Delta\geq 5\cdot 2^{k-1}+1$. This confirms that for the relevant sampling and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Guoliang Qiu , Jiaheng Wang

We study the $P_3$-convexity, the path convexity generated by all three-vertex paths, and focus on the problem of counting the $P_3$-convex vertex sets of a graph $G$, denoted by $\noc(G)$. First, we settle the associated extremal question:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Mitre C. Dourado , Luciano N. Grippo , Min Chih Lin , Fábio Protti

This paper proposes a novel exact distributed asynchronous subgradient-push algorithm (AsySPA) to solve an additive cost optimization problem over directed graphs where each node only has access to a local convex function and updates…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Jiaqi Zhang , Keyou You

This article is set in the field of regulation networks modeled by discrete dynamical systems. It focuses on Boolean automata networks. In such networks, there are many ways to update the states of every element. When this is done…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Mathilde Noual

After the phenomenal success of the PageRank algorithm, many researchers have extended the PageRank approach to ranking graphs with richer structures beside the simple linkage structure. In some scenarios we have to deal with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-15 Gianna M. Del Corso , Francesco Romani

We consider the problem of sampling and approximately counting an arbitrary given motif $H$ in a graph $G$, where access to $G$ is given via queries: degree, neighbor, and pair, as well as uniform edge sample queries. Previous algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Amartya Shankha Biswas , Talya Eden , Ronitt Rubinfeld

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,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Andrew Ryzhikov , Anton Shemyakov

We introduce the notion of adaptive synchronisation for pushdown automata, in which there is an external observer who has no knowledge about the current state of the pushdown automaton, but can observe the contents of the stack. The…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 A. R. Balasubramanian , K. S. Thejaswini

This paper reports on the details of the International Competition on Graph Counting Algorithms (ICGCA) held in 2023. The graph counting problem is to count the subgraphs satisfying specified constraints on a given graph. The problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Takeru Inoue , Norihito Yasuda , Hidetomo Nabeshima , Masaaki Nishino , Shuhei Denzumi , Shin-ichi Minato

Extensions to finite-state automata on strings, such as multi-head automata or multi-counter automata, have been successfully used to encode many infinite-state non-regular verification problems. In this paper, we consider a generalization…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Rayna Dimitrova , Rupak Majumdar

An important tool in analyzing complex social and information networks is s-t simple path counting, which is known to be #P-complete. In this paper, we study efficient s-t simple path counting in directed graphs. For a given pair of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

We present a family of automata networks that solve the k-parity problem when run in parallel. These solutions are constructed by connecting cliques in a non-cyclical fashion. The size of the local neighbourhood is linear in the size of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Pacôme Perrotin , Eurico Ruivo , Pedro Paulo Balbi

Maintaining a $k$-core decomposition quickly in a dynamic graph has important applications in network analysis. The main challenge for designing efficient exact algorithms is that a single update to the graph can cause significant global…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Quanquan C. Liu , Jessica Shi , Shangdi Yu , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

For a collection $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, the $\mathcal{F}$-\textsc{Contraction} problem takes a graph $G$ and an integer $k$ as input and decides if $G$ can be modified to some graph in $\mathcal{F}$ using at most $k$ edge contractions.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 R. Krithika , Pranabendu Misra , Prafullkumar Tale