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This paper presents a general and systematic discussion of various symbolic representations of iterated maps through subshifts. We give a unified model for all continuous maps on a metric space, by representing a map through a general…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xin-Chu Fu , Weiping Lu , Peter Ashwin , Jinqiao Duan

We show techniques of analyzing complex dynamics of cellular automata (CA) with chaotic behaviour. CA are well known computational substrates for studying emergent collective behaviour, complexity, randomness and interaction between order…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2012-03-29 Genaro J. Martinez , Andrew Adamatzky , Ramon Alonso-Sanz

We develop a general theory of semantic dynamics for large language models by formalizing them as Continuous State Machines (CSMs): smooth dynamical systems whose latent manifolds evolve under probabilistic transition operators. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-08 C. M. Wyss

Analogous to regular string and tree languages, regular languages of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are defined in the literature. Although called regular, those DAG-languages are more powerful and, consequently, standard problems have a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yvo Ad Meeres

The study of factoring relations between subshifts or cellular automata is central in symbolic dynamics. Besides, a notion of intrinsic universality for cellular automata based on an operation of rescaling is receiving more and more…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Laurent Boyer , Guillaume Theyssier

We develop a formalism to describe the discrete-time dynamics of systems containing an arbitrary number of interacting species. The individual-based model, which forms our starting point, is described by a Markov chain, which in the limit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-06 César Parra-Rojas , Joseph D. Challenger , Duccio Fanelli , Alan J. McKane

We present a taxonomy of the variability mechanisms offered by modeling languages. The definition of a formal language encompasses a syntax and a semantic domain as well as the mapping that relates them, thus language variabilities are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Maria Victoria Cengarle , Hans Grönninger , Bernhard Rumpe

We present a new approach to formal language theory using Kolmogorov complexity. The main results presented here are an alternative for pumping lemma(s), a new characterization for regular languages, and a new method to separate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ming Li , Paul Vitanyi

Separation logic is a concise method for specifying programs that manipulate dynamically allocated storage. Partially inspired by separation logic, Implicit Dynamic Frames has recently been proposed, aiming at first-order tool support. In…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Matthew J. Parkinson , Alexander J. Summers

Languages vary widely in how meanings map to word forms. These mappings have been found to support efficient communication; however, this theory does not account for systematic relations within word forms. We examine how a restricted set of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Doreen Osmelak , Yang Xu , Michael Hahn , Kate McCurdy

Among the several findings deriving from the application of complex network formalism to the investigation of natural phenomena, the fact that linguistic constructions follow power laws presents special interest for its potential…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Luciano da Fontoura Costa

This study investigates the diverse characteristics of nouns, focusing on both semantic (e.g., countable/uncountable) and morphosyntactic (e.g., masculine/feminine) distinctions. We explore inter-word variations for gender markers in noun…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Mohamed El Idrissi

Dynamical systems are abstract models of interaction between space and time. They are often used in fields such as physics and engineering to understand complex processes, but due to their general nature, they have found applications for…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-01 David Fernández-Duque , Yoàv Montacute

Formal grammars are extensively used in Computer Science and related fields to study the rules which govern production of a language. The use of these grammars can be extended beyond mere language production. One possibility is to view…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Abhinav Aggarwal

Cellular automata (CA) are discrete-time dynamical systems with local update rules on a lattice. Despite their elementary definition, CA support a wide spectrum of macroscopic phenomena central to statistical physics: equilibrium and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Mihir Metkar , Neha Sah , Yichen Zhou

This article presents a new characterization of controllability and regional controllability of Deterministic Cellular Automata (CA for short). It focuses on analyzing these problems within the framework of control theory, which have been…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Sara Dridi

Morphological tasks use large multi-lingual datasets that organize words into inflection tables, which then serve as training and evaluation data for various tasks. However, a closer inspection of these data reveals profound…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Omer Goldman , Reut Tsarfaty

Continuation of algebraic structures in families of dynamical systems is described using category theory, sheaves, and lattice algebras. Well-known concepts in dynamics, such as attractors or invariant sets, are formulated as functors on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-14 K. Dowling , W. D. Kalies , R. C. A. M. Vandervorst

A new model of symbol grounding is presented, in which the structures of natural language, logical semantics, perception and action are represented categorically, and symbol grounding is modeled via the composition of morphisms between the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Ruiting Lian , Ben Goertzel , Linas Vepstas , David Hanson , Changle Zhou

In the present paper, we propose a new theory named "Theory of indeterminate natural transformation (TINT)" to investigate the dynamical creation of meanings as association relationships between images, focusing on the metaphor…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Miho Fuyama , Hayato Saigo