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Reaction--diffusion mechanism are a robust paradigm that can be used to represent many biological and physical phenomena over multiple spatial scales. Applications include intracellular dynamics, the migration of cells and the patterns…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-01 Cameron A. Smith , Christian A. Yates

In previous works, hexagonal cellular automata (CA) have been studied as a variation of the famous Game of Life CA, mainly for spiral phenomena simulations; where the most interesting constructions are related to the Belousov-Zhabotinsky…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2014-11-05 Rogelio Basurto , Paulina A. León , Genaro J. Martínez , Juan C. Seck-Tuoh-Mora

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

Spontaneous pattern formation in homogeneous systems is ubiquitous in nature. Although Turing demonstrated that spatial patterns can emerge in reaction-diffusion (RD) systems when the homogeneous state becomes linearly unstable, it remains…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Shuonan Wu , Bing Yu , Yuhai Tu , Lei Zhang

We give a comprehensive study of the analytic properties and long-time behavior of solutions of a reaction-diffusion system in a bounded domain in the case where the nonlinearity satisfies the standard monotonicity assumption. We pay the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Anna Kostianko , Chunyou Sun , Sergey Zelik

In this work, we formulate a theoretical model based on a cellular automaton (CA) to study thermal transport in low-dimensional nanostructures across ballistic, diffusive, and transition regimes. Unlike computationally intensive methods…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Alejandra León

We propose a technique to detect and generate patterns in a network of locally interacting dynamical systems. Central to our approach is a novel spatial superposition logic, whose semantics is defined over the quad-tree of a partitioned…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-22 Ebru Aydin Gol , Ezio Bartocci , Calin Belta

In this work, we examine the conditions for the emergence of chimera-like states in Ising systems. We study an Ising chain with periodic boundaries in contact with a thermal bath at temperature T, that induces stochastic changes in spin…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-17 Alejandro de Haro García , Joaquín J. Torres

Recent work with Lenia, a continuously-valued cellular automata (CA) framework, has yielded $\sim$100s of compelling, bioreminiscent and mobile patterns. Lenia can be viewed as a continuously-valued generalization of the Game of Life, a…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2022-05-24 Q. Tyrell Davis , Josh Bongard

Mass-conserving reaction-diffusion (MCRD) systems are widely used to model phase separation and pattern formation in cell polarity, biomolecular condensates, and ecological systems. Numerical simulations and formal asymptotic analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Xiaoqing He , Quan-Xing Liu , Dong Ye

Recent studies have focused on leveraging large-scale artificial intelligence (LAI) models to improve semantic representation and compression capabilities. However, the substantial computational demands of LAI models pose significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chuanhong Liu , Caili Guo , Yang Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

Distributed coordination algorithms (DCA) carry out information processing processes among a group of networked agents without centralized information fusion. Though it is well known that DCA characterized by an SIA (stochastic,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Yao Chen , Weiguo Xia , Ming Cao , Jinhu Lu

Many physical systems are described by probability distributions that evolve in both time and space. Modeling these systems is often challenging to due large state space and analytically intractable or computationally expensive dynamics. To…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Oliver K. Ernst , Tom Bartol , Terrence Sejnowski , Eric Mjolsness

Cellular automata (CA) have been found as an attractive modeling tool for various applications, such as, pattern recognition, image processing, data compression, encryption, and specially for VLSI design & test. For such applications,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-28 Sukanta Das , Biplab K Sikdar

Reversible Cellular Automata (RCA) are a physics-like model of computation consisting of an array of identical cells, evolving in discrete time steps by iterating a global evolution G. Further, G is required to be shift-invariant (it acts…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-01-27 Pablo Arrighi , Vincent Nesme

Motivated by bacterial chemotaxis and multi-species ecological interactions in heterogeneous environments, we study a general one-dimensional reaction-cross-diffusion system in the presence of spatial heterogeneity in both transport and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-03-08 Eamonn A. Gaffney , Andrew L. Krause , Philip K. Maini , Chenyuan Wang

Although the spatially continuous version of the reaction-diffusion equation has been well studied, in some instances a spatially-discretized representation provides a more realistic approximation of biological processes. Indeed,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Jacqueline M. Wentz , David M. Bortz

In the article a transition from pattern evolution equation of reaction-diffusion type to a cellular automaton (CA) is described. The applicability of CA is demonstrated by generating patterns of complex irregular structure on a hexagonal…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Lovrenc Švegl , Igor Grabec

A nonlinear reaction-diffusion system with cross-diffusion describing the COVID-19 outbreak is studied using the Lie symmetry method. A complete Lie symmetry classification is derived and it is shown that the system with correctly-specified…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-07-14 Roman Cherniha , Vasyl' Davydovych

Shared autonomy is an enabling technology that provides users with control authority over robots that would otherwise be difficult if not impossible to directly control. Yet, standard methods make assumptions that limit their adoption in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Luzhe Sun , Jingtian Ji , Xiangshan Tan , Matthew R. Walter