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In this dissertation, we study temporally stochasticity in cellular automata and the behavior of such cellular automata. The work also explores the computational ability of such cellular automaton that illustrates the computability of…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2022-10-26 Subrata Paul

Cellular automaton (CA) approach is an important theoretical framework for studying complex system behavior and has been widely applied in various research field. CA traffic flow models have the advantage of flexible evolution rules and…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2018-10-09 Junfang Tian , Chenqiang Zhu , Rui Jiang

This paper describes a new concept of cellular automaton (CA). XCA consists of a set of arcs (edges) that correspond to cells in CA. At a particular time, the arcs are connected to a directed graph. With each time step, the arcs exchange…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-07-19 Walter Eckel

Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) are bio-inspired dynamical systems in which identical cells iteratively apply a learned local update rule to self-organize into complex patterns, exhibiting regeneration, robustness, and spontaneous dynamics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ehsan Pajouheshgar , Yitao Xu , Ali Abbasi , Alexander Mordvintsev , Wenzel Jakob , Sabine Süsstrunk

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

The expanding cellular automata (XCA) variant of cellular automata is investigated and characterized from a complexity-theoretical standpoint. An XCA is a one-dimensional cellular automaton which can dynamically create new cells between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Augusto Modanese

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…

Biological systems are notorious for complex behavior within short timescales (e.g. metabolic activity) and longer time scales (e.g. evolutionary selection), along with their complex spatial organization. Because of their complexity and…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2021-09-14 Alyssa M Adams

Cellular automata are a set of computational models in discrete space that have a discrete time evolution defined by neighbourhood rules. They are used to simulate many complex systems in physics and science in general. In this work,…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-05-12 Luca Bertolani , Andrea Idini

We study the predictability of emergent phenomena in complex systems. Using nearest neighbor, one-dimensional Cellular Automata (CA) as an example, we show how to construct local coarse-grained descriptions of CA in all classes of Wolfram's…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2015-06-26 Navot Israeli , Nigel Goldenfeld

This paper designs an efficient two-class pattern classifier utilizing asynchronous cellular automata (ACAs). The two-state three-neighborhood one-dimensional ACAs that converge to fixed points from arbitrary seeds are used here for pattern…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-02-01 Biswanath Sethi , Souvik Roy , Sukanta Das

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 have been useful artificial models for exploring how relatively simple rules combined with spatial memory can give rise to complex emergent patterns. Moreover, studying the dynamics of how rules emerge under artificial…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2014-07-11 Theodore P. Pavlic , Alyssa M. Adams , Paul C. W. Davies , Sara Imari Walker

A framework for implementing reservoir computing (RC) and extreme learning machines (ELMs), two types of artificial neural networks, based on 1D elementary Cellular Automata (CA) is presented, in which two separate CA rules explicitly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Nathan McDonald

The emergent dynamics in spacetime diagrams of cellular automata (CAs) is often organised by means of a number of behavioural classes. Whilst classification of elementary CAs is feasible and well-studied, non-elementary CAs are generally…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-07-10 Michiel Rollier , Aisling J. Daly , Jan M. Baetens

Cellular automata (CA) models are widely used to simulate complex systems with emergent behaviors, but identifying hidden parameters that govern their dynamics remains a significant challenge. This study explores the use of Convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Valery Ashu , Zhisong Liu , Heikki Haario , Andreas Rupp

To test generalization ability of a class of deep neural networks, we randomly generate a large number of different rule sets for 2-D cellular automata (CA), based on John Conway's Game of Life. Using these rules, we compute several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Marcel Aach , Jens Henrik Goebbert , Jenia Jitsev

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

Cellular automata (CA) are quintessential ALife and ubiquitous in many studies of collective behaviour and emergence, from morphogenesis to social dynamics and even brain modelling. Recently, there has been an increased interest in…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-12-29 Madalina I Sas , Julian H J Sutherland

The objective is the design of a Cellular Automata rule that can form patterns with 'touching' loops. A loop is defined as a closed path of 1-cells in a 2D grid on a zero background and with a zero border. A path cell is connected with two…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-10-18 Rolf Hoffmann