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A small-world cellular automaton network has been formulated to simulate the long-range interactions of complex networks using unconventional computing methods in this paper. Conventional cellular automata use local updating rules. The new…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2010-03-26 Xin-She Yang , Young Z. L. Yang

In the computational-mechanics structural analysis of one-dimensional cellular automata the following automata-theoretic analogue of the \emph{change-point problem} from time series analysis arises: \emph{Given a string $\sigma$ and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Carl S. McTague , James P. Crutchfield

The purpose of the present study is to search one-dimensional Cellular Automata (CA) rules which will solve the density classification task (DCT) perfectly. The mathematical analysis of number conserving functions over binary strings of…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-07-26 Suryakanta Pal , Sudhakar Sahoo , Birendra Kumar Nayak

We present necessary and sufficient conditions for solving the strongly dependent decision (SDD) problem in various distributed systems. Our main contribution is a novel characterization of the SDD problem based on point-set topology. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Martin Biely , Peter Robinson

In cellular networks, base stations broadcast configurations that devices use for the random access procedure, which is a vital part of the connection setup. Ideally, the network should choose configurations based on the deployment scenario…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Joris Belder , Anup Bhattacharjee , Fernando Kuipers

This paper presents a classification of Cellular Automata rules based on its properties at the nth iteration. Elaborate computer program has been designed to get the nth iteration for arbitrary 1-D or 2-D CA rules. Studies indicate that the…

The global majority problem, often referred to as the Density Classification Task, is a classical benchmark in the context of probing the computational capabilities of automata networks. It poses the simple yet challenging problem of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Pedro Paulo Balbi , Kévin Perrot , Marius Rolland , Eurico Ruivo

Cellular Automata (CAs) are computational models that can capture the essential features of systems in which global behavior emerges from the collective effect of simple components, which interact locally. During the last decades, CAs have…

The emergence of complex behaviors in cellular automata is an area that has been widely developed in recent years with the intention to generate and analyze automata that produce space-moving patterns or gliders that interact in a periodic…

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 deals with the CREP (Configuration REachability Problem) for non-uniform cellular automata (CAs). The cells of non-uniform CAs, we have considered here, can use different Wolfram's rules to generate their next states. We report…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Sumit Adak , Sukanya Mukherjee , Sukanta Das

(see paper for full abstract) Cut problems and connectivity problems on digraphs are two well-studied classes of problems from the viewpoint of parameterized complexity. After a series of papers over the last decade, we now have (almost)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Rajesh Chitnis , Andreas Emil Feldmann

The Chance-Constrained Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem (CC-PMSP) assigns jobs with uncertain processing times to machines, ensuring that each machine's availability constraints are met with a certain probability. We present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Nicolás Casassus , Margarita Castro , Gustavo Angulo

This paper studies complexity of recognition of classes of bounded configurations by a generalization of conventional cellular automata (CA) -- finite dynamic cellular automata (FDCA). Inspired by the CA-based models of biological and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Maxim Makatchev

In this paper, we develop a new cellular automata-based linear model for several nonlinear pseudorandom number generators with practical applications in symmetric cryptography. Such a model generates all the solutions of linear binary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-04 Pino Caballero-Gil , Amparo Fúster-Sabater , Oscar Delgado-Mohatar

We consider the communication complexity of a number of distributed optimization problems. We start with the problem of solving a linear system. Suppose there is a coordinator together with $s$ servers $P_1, \ldots, P_s$, the $i$-th of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Santosh S. Vempala , Ruosong Wang , David P. Woodruff

In this paper, we study reversibility of one-dimensional(1D) linear cellular automata(LCA) under null boundary condition, whose core problems have been divided into two main parts: calculating the period of reversibility and verifying the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Xinyu Du , Chao Wang , Tianze Wang , Zeyu Gao

The Directed Rural Postman Problem (DRPP) can be formulated as follows: given a strongly connected directed multigraph $D=(V,A)$ with nonnegative integral weights on the arcs, a subset $R$ of $A$ and a nonnegative integer $\ell$, decide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Gregory Gutin , Magnus Wahlstrom , Anders Yeo

We introduce Decision Tree Decoders (DTDs), which rely only on the sparsity of the binary check matrix, making them broadly applicable for decoding any quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) code and fault-tolerant quantum circuits. DTDs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Kai R. Ott , Bence Hetényi , Michael E. Beverland

The density classification task is a famous problem in the theory of cellular automata. It is unsolvable for deterministic automata, but recently solutions for stochastic cellular automata have been found. One of them is a set of stochastic…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2019-07-22 Markus Redeker