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Number-conserving cellular automata are discrete dynamical systems that simulate interacting particles like e.g. grains of sand. In an earlier paper, I had already derived a uniform construction for all transition rules of one-dimensional…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-06-02 Markus Redeker

An introduction to cellular automata (both deterministic and probabilistic) with examples. Definition of deterministic automata, dynamical properties, damage spreading and Lyapunov exponents; probabilistic automata and Markov processes,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Franco Bagnoli

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

We introduce Network Automata, a framework which couples the topological evolution of a network to its structure. It is useful for dealing with networks in which the topology evolves according to some specified microscopic rules and,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-07-12 David M. D. Smith , Jukka-Pekka Onnela , Chiu Fan Lee , Mark Fricker , Neil F. Johnson

A cellular automaton is a deterministic and exactly computable dynamical system which mimics certain fundamental aspects of physical dynamics such as spatial locality and finite entropy. CA systems can be constructed which have additional…

comp-gas · Physics 2007-05-23 Norman Margolus

Neural cellular automata (Neural CA) are a recent framework used to model biological phenomena emerging from multicellular organisms. In these systems, artificial neural networks are used as update rules for cellular automata. Neural CA are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Alexandre Variengien , Stefano Nichele , Tom Glover , Sidney Pontes-Filho

The model of cellular automata is fascinating because very simple local rules can generate complex global behaviors. The relationship between local and global function is subject of many studies. We tackle this question by using results on…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Christoph Durr , Ivan Rapaport , Guillaume Theyssier

Layered Cellular Automata (LCA) extends the concept of traditional cellular automata (CA) to model complex systems and phenomena. In LCA, each cell's next state is determined by the interaction of two layers of computation, allowing for…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-08-15 Abhishek Dalai

Cellular automata are both computational and dynamical systems. We give a complete classification of the dynamic behaviour of elementary cellular automata (ECA) in terms of fundamental dynamic system notions such as sensitivity and…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2013-02-21 Martin Schuele , Ruedi Stoop

Cellular Automata are discrete--time dynamical systems on a spatially extended discrete space which provide paradigmatic examples of nonlinear phenomena. Their stochastic generalizations, i.e., Probabilistic Cellular Automata, are discrete…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-06 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Francesca R. Nardi , Cristian Spitoni

Currently there is great interest in computational models consisting of underlying regular computational environments, and built on them distributed computational structures. Examples of such models are cellular automata, spatial…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-23 Oleksiy Kurgansky

We construct a cellular automaton (CA) model that describes the movement of a particle in a disordered system. The mathematical properties of the CA model were examined by varying the configuration of grid and determining the number of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Lander Besabe , Editha Jose , Alvin Karlo Tapia

The goal of this paper is to show why the framework of communication complexity seems suitable for the study of cellular automata. Researchers have tackled different algorithmic problems ranging from the complexity of predicting to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-06-22 Eric Goles , Pierre-Etienne Meunier , Ivan Rapaport , Guillaume Theyssier

We introduce an agent-based model for the spreading of technological developments in socio-economic systems where the technology is mainly used for the collaboration/interaction of agents. Agents use products of different technologies to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Ferenc Kun , Gergely Kocsis , Janos Farkas

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 cellular automata model that describes as limit cases of his parameters the spread of contagious diseases modeled by systems of ordinary or partial differential equations is developed. Periodic features of the behavior of human settlement…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 Ricardo Mansilla , Jose L. Gutierrez

Network equilibrium models represent a versatile tool for the analysis of interconnected objects and their relationships. They have been widely employed in both science and engineering to study the behavior of complex systems under various…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-10-31 Omar Aloui , David Orden , Nizar Bel Hadj Ali , Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos

Cellular automata are discrete and computational models thatcan be shown as general models of complexity. They are used in varied applications to derive the generalized behavior of the presented model. In this paper we have took one such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Karan Nayak

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) represent a powerful framework for modeling biological self-organization, extending classical rule-based systems with trainable, differentiable (or evolvable) update rules that capture the adaptive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Benedikt Hartl , Michael Levin , Léo Pio-Lopez

This note is a survey of examples and results about cellular automata with the purpose of recalling that there is no 'universal' way of being computationally universal. In particular, we show how some cellular automata can embed efficient…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Guillaume Theyssier