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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…

Constraint automata (CA) constitute a coordination model based on finite automata on infinite words. Originally introduced for modeling of coordinators, an interesting new application of CAs is implementing coordinators (i.e., compiling CAs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Sung-Shik T. Q. Jongmans , Farhad Arbab

Cellular Automata (CA) are commonly investigated as a particular type of dynamical systems, defined by shift-invariant local rules. In this paper, we consider instead CA as algebraic systems, focusing on the combinatorial designs induced by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Luca Manzoni , Luca Mariot , Giuliamaria Menara

Very recently, the Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) has been proposed to simulate the morphogenesis process with deep networks. NCA learns to grow an image starting from a fixed single pixel. In this work, we show that the neural network (NN)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Alejandro Hernandez Ruiz , Armand Vilalta , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

We have developed a simple cellular automata model for nonlinearly coupled phase oscillators which can exhibit many important collective dynamical states found in other synchronizing systems. The state of our system is specified by a set of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-06-29 Amitava Banerjee , Muktish Acharyya

One can think of some physical evolutions as being the emergent-effective result of a microscopic discrete model. Inspired by classical coarse-graining procedures, we provide a simple procedure to coarse-grain color-blind quantum cellular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 O. Duranthon , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

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

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

Over an arbitrary commutative ring $R$, we develop a theory of quantum cellular automata. We then use algebraic K-theory to construct a space $\mathbf{Q}(X)$ of quantum cellular automata (QCA) on a given metric space $X$. In most cases of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Mattie Ji , Bowen Yang

Reversible Cellular Automata (RCA) are a particular kind of shift-invariant transformations characterized by a dynamics composed only of disjoint cycles. They have many applications in the simulation of physical systems, cryptography and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Luca Mariot , Stjepan Picek , Domagoj Jakobovic , Alberto Leporati

We study classical and quantum spin models derived from one-dimensional cellular automata (CA) with nonlinear update rules, focusing on rules 30, 54 and 201. We argue that the classical models, defined such that their ground states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Konstantinos Sfairopoulos , Luke Causer , Jamie F. Mair , Stephen Powell , Juan P. Garrahan

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

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

Cellular automata are a class of computational models based on simple rules and algorithms that can simulate a wide range of complex phenomena. However, when using conventional computers, these 'simple' rules are only encapsulated at the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Gordon H. Y. Li , Christian R. Leefmans , James Williams , Alireza Marandi

A Cellular Automata (CA) rule is presented that can generate "loop patterns" in a 2D grid under fixed boundary conditions. A loop is a cyclically closed path represented by one-cells enclosed by zero-cells. A loop pattern can contain…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-05-30 Rolf Hoffmann , Mariusz Białecki

Cellular automata provide models of parallel computation based on cells, whose connectivity is given by an action of a monoid on the cells. At each step in the computation, every cell is decorated with a state that evolves in discrete steps…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Henning Basold , Chase Ford , Lulof Pirée

Describing complex phenomena by means of cellular automata (CA) has shown to be a very effective approach in pure and applied sciences. In fact, the number of published papers concerning this topic has tremendously increased over the last…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2012-06-13 Luan Carlos de Sena Monteiro Ozelim , André Luís Brasil Cavalcante , Lucas Parreira de Faria Borges

Automated feature engineering (AFE) enables AI systems to autonomously construct high-utility representations from raw tabular data. However, existing AFE methods rely on statistical heuristics, yielding brittle features that fail under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Arun Vignesh Malarkkan , Wangyang Ying , Yanjie Fu

Elementary fuzzy Cellular Automata (CA) are known as continuous counterpart of elementary CA, which are 2-state CA, via the polynomial representation of local rules. In this paper, we first develop a new fuzzification methodology for…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2020-06-12 Yuki Nishida , Sennosuke Watanabe , Akiko Fukuda , Yoshihide Watanabe

The dynamics group of an asynchronous cellular automaton (ACA) relates properties of its long term dynamics to the structure of Coxeter groups. The key mathematical feature connecting these diverse fields is involutions. Group-theoretic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-10-12 Matthew Macauley , Henning S. Mortveit