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We consider the parity problem in one-dimensional, binary, circular cellular automata: if the initial configuration contains an odd number of 1s, the lattice should converge to all 1s; otherwise, it should converge to all 0s. It is easy to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Heater Betel , Pedro P. B. de Oliveira , Paola Flocchini

The density classification problem is one of the simplest yet non-trivial computing tasks which seem to be ideally suitable for cellular automata (CA). Unfortunately, there exists no one-dimensional two-state CA which classifies binary…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-02-18 Henryk Fukś

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

Determining properties of an arbitrary binary sequence is a challenging task if only local processing is allowed. Among these properties, the determination of the parity of 1s by distributed consensus has been a recurring endeavour in the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Barbara Wolnik , Anna Nenca , Pedro Paulo Balbi , Bernard De Baets

The density classification problem is the computational problem of finding the majority in a given array of votes in a distributed fashion. It is known that no cellular automaton rule with binary alphabet can solve the density…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-04-18 Nazim Fatès , Irène Marcovici , Siamak Taati

We define and study a few properties of a class of random automata networks. While regular finite one-dimensional cellular automata are defined on periodic lattices, these automata networks, called randomized cellular automata, are defined…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-11-13 Nino Boccara

This paper deals with the theory and application of 2-Dimensional, nine-neighborhood, null- boundary, uniform as well as hybrid Cellular Automata (2D CA) linear rules in image processing. These rules are classified into nine groups…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-04-16 Pabitra Pal Choudhury , Birendra Kumar Nayak , Sudhakar Sahoo , Sunil Pankaj Rath

We study a two-dimensional cellular automaton (CA), called Diffusion Rule (DR), which exhibits diffusion-like dynamics of propagating patterns. In computational experiments we discover a wide range of mobile and stationary localizations…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Genaro J. Martinez , Andrew Adamatzky , Harold V. McIntosh

Suppose each site on a one-dimensional chain with periodic boundary condition may take on any one of the states $0,1,..., n-1$, can you find out the most frequently occurring state using cellular automaton? Here, we prove that while the…

adap-org · Physics 2015-06-24 H. F. Chau , L. W. Siu , K. K. Yan

The search for symmetry as an unusual yet profoundly appealing phenomenon, and the origin of regular, repeating configuration patterns have long been a central focus of complexity science and physics. To better grasp and understand symmetry…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2019-07-01 Peter Banda , John Caughman , Martin Cenek , Christof Teuscher

We study the dynamics of (synchronous) one-dimensional cellular automata with cyclical boundary conditions that evolve according to the majority rule with radius $ r $. We introduce a notion that we term cell stability with which we express…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Yonatan Nakar , Dana Ron

We present a family of one-dimensional cellular automata modeling the diffusion of an innovation in a population. Starting from simple deterministic rules, we construct models parameterized by the interaction range and exhibiting a…

adap-org · Physics 2023-12-18 Nino Boccara , Henryk Fuks

Cellular automata are one-dimensional arrays of interconnected interacting finite automata. We investigate one of the weakest classes, the real-time one-way cellular automata, and impose an additional restriction on their inter-cell…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-30 Martin Kutrib , Andreas Malcher

It has been shown that uniform as well as non-uniform cellular automata (CA) can be evolved to perform certain computational tasks. Random Boolean networks are a generalization of two-state cellular automata, where the interconnection…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Bertrand Mesot , Christof Teuscher

We study the fixed points of outer-totalistic cellular automata on sparse random regular graphs. These can be seen as constraint satisfaction problems, where each variable must adhere to the same local constraint, which depends solely on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-12-06 Cédric Koller , Freya Behrens , Lenka Zdeborová

This paper proposes a new pattern of two dimensional cellular automata linear rules that are used for efficient edge detection of an image. Since cellular automata is inherently parallel in nature, it has produced desired output within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Jahangir Mohammed , Deepak Ranjan Nayak

In a probabilistic cellular automaton in which all local transitions have positive probability, the problem of keeping a bit of information indefinitely is nontrivial, even in an infinite automaton. Still, there is a solution in 2…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Peter Gacs

In this paper we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving linear programming problems subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Roland Bouffanais

While the surjectivity of the global map in two-dimensional cellular automata (2D CA) is undecidable in general, in specific cases one can often decide if the rule is surjective or not. We attempt to classify as many 2D CA as possible by…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2012-08-06 Henryk Fukś , Andrew Skelton

One-dimensional cellular automata are discrete dynamical systems that operate on an infinite lattice of sites and are characterized by the locality and uniformity of their update rule. Permutations of the state set and isometric…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-12-10 Martin Schaller , Karl Svozil
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