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Cellular automata (CA) are discrete-time dynamical systems with local update rules on a lattice. Despite their elementary definition, CA support a wide spectrum of macroscopic phenomena central to statistical physics: equilibrium and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Mihir Metkar , Neha Sah , Yichen Zhou

This paper is the second part of a series of two papers dealing with bulking: a way to define quasi-order on cellular automata by comparing space-time diagrams up to rescaling. In the present paper, we introduce three notions of simulation…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-27 Marianne Delorme , Jacques Mazoyer , Nicolas Ollinger , Guillaume Theyssier

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

Cellular automata (CA), originally developed as computational models of natural processes, have become a central subject in the study of complex systems and generative visual forms. Among them, the Ulam-Warburton Cellular Automaton (UWCA)…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2026-01-28 Chung-En Hao , Ivan C. H. Liu

State-of-the-art review of cellular automata, cellular automata for partial differential equations, differential equations for cellular automata and pattern formation in biology and engineering.

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2010-03-11 Xin-She Yang , Y. Young

Can complex engineered and biological networks be coarse-grained into smaller and more understandable versions in which each node represents an entire pattern in the original network? To address this, we define coarse-graining units (CGU)…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 Shalev Itzkovitz , Reuven Levitt , Nadav Kashtan , Ron Milo , Michael Itzkovitz , Uri Alon

Modularity clustering is an essential tool to understand complicated graphs. However, existing methods are not applicable to massive graphs due to two serious weaknesses. (1) It is difficult to fully reproduce ground-truth clusters due to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Hiroaki Shiokawa , Toshiyuki Amagasa , Hiroyuki Kitagawa

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) are a powerful combination of machine learning and mechanistic modelling. We train NCA to learn complex dynamics from time series of images and PDE trajectories. Our method is designed to identify underlying…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-04-23 Alex D. Richardson , Tibor Antal , Richard A. Blythe , Linus J. Schumacher

While experiments and computer simulations to study biological phenomena are usually performed in diluted in vitro conditions, such phenomena happen inside the cell, an environment densely packed with diverse macromolecules. Here, we revise…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-22 Apoorva Mathur , Vanessa Regina Miranda , Ariane Nunes-Alves

In this paper I present a first attempt for a possible description of fluids dynamics by mean of a cellular automata technique. With the use of simple and elementary rules, based on random behaviour either, the model permits to obtain the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gianluca Argentini

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…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-06-19 Damien Regnault , Nicolas Schabanel , Éric Thierry

Multiscale molecular modeling is widely applied in scientific research of molecular properties over large time and length scales. Two specific challenges are commonly present in multiscale modeling, provided that information between the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Jun Zhang , Xiaohan Lin , Weinan E , Yi Qin Gao

Cellular automata are discrete dynamical systems and a model of computation. The limit set of a cellular automaton consists of the configurations having an infinite sequence of preimages. It is well known that these always contain a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Alex Borello , Julien Cervelle , Pascal Vanier

With the advent of huges volumes of data produced in the form of fast streams, real-time machine learning has become a challenge of relevance emerging in a plethora of real-world applications. Processing such fast streams often demands high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Jesus L. Lobo , Javier Del Ser , Francisco Herrera

Particle-like objects are observed to propagate and interact in many spatially extended dynamical systems. For one of the simplest classes of such systems, one-dimensional cellular automata, we establish a rigorous upper bound on the number…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-10-31 Wim Hordijk , Cosma Rohilla Shalizi , James P. Crutchfield

Inspired by biological and cultural evolution, there have been many attempts to explore and elucidate the necessary conditions for open-endedness in artificial intelligence and artificial life. Using a continuous cellular automata called…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Bert Wang-Chak Chan

Evolutionary complexity is here measured by the number of trials/evaluations needed for evolving a logical gate in a non-linear medium. Behavioural complexity of the gates evolved is characterised in terms of cellular automata behaviour. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-11-23 Andy Adamatzky , Larry Bull

One can think of some physical evolutions as being the emergent-effective result of a microscopic discrete model. Inspired by classical coarse-graining procedures, we provide a simple procedure to coarse-grain color-blind quantum cellular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 O. Duranthon , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

We explore the emergence of intelligent behavior in artificial systems by investigating how the complexity of rule-based systems influences the capabilities of models trained to predict these rules. Our study focuses on elementary cellular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shiyang Zhang , Aakash Patel , Syed A Rizvi , Nianchen Liu , Sizhuang He , Amin Karbasi , Emanuele Zappala , David van Dijk

A key challenge in modern computing is to develop systems that address complex, dynamic problems in a scalable and efficient way, because the increasing complexity of software makes designing and maintaining efficient and flexible systems…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Gerard Briscoe , Paolo Dini