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We present a method to eliminate redundancy in the transition tables of Boolean automata: schema redescription with two symbols. One symbol is used to capture redundancy of individual input variables, and another to capture permutability in…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2015-03-18 Manuel Marques-Pita , Luis M. Rocha

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 the problem of computing a minimal subset of nodes of a given asynchronous Boolean network that need to be controlled to drive its dynamics from an initial steady state (or attractor) to a target steady state. Due to the phenomenon…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Soumya Paul , Cui Su , Jun Pang , Andrzej Mizera

Control problem in a biological system is the problem of finding an interventional policy for changing the state of the biological system from an undesirable state, e.g. disease, into a desirable healthy state. Boolean networks are utilized…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-07 Mohammad Moradi , Sama Goliaei

Probing the ability of automata networks to solve decision problems has received a continuous attention in the literature, and specially with the automata reaching the answer by distributed consensus, i.e., their all taking on a same state,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Eurico Ruivo , Pedro Paulo Balbi , Kévin Perrot , Marco Montalva-Medel , Eric Goles

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been a prominent concept within artificial intelligence. They are inspired by Biological Neural Networks (BNNs) and provide an intuitive and abstract representation of how BNNs work. Derived from the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Stefano Nichele , Andreas Molund

Most of the Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) defined in the literature have a common theme: they are based on regular grids with a Moore neighborhood (one-hop neighbour). They do not take into account long-range connections and more complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Léo Pio-Lopez , Benedikt Hartl , Michael Levin

Gene regulatory networks can be successfully modeled as Boolean networks. A much discussed hypothesis says that such model networks reproduce empirical findings the best if they are tuned to operate at criticality, i.e. at the borderline…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-12 Pablo Villegas , José Ruiz-Franco , Jorge Hidalgo , Miguel A. Muñoz

The density classification (DC) task, a computation which maps global density information to local density, is studied using one-dimensional non-unitary quantum cellular automata (QCAs). Two approaches are considered: one that preserves the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Elisabeth Wagner , Federico Dell'Anna , Ramil Nigmatullin , Gavin K. Brennen

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

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 present and discuss the results of an experimental analysis in the design of Boolean networks by means of genetic algorithms. A population of networks is evolved with the aim of finding a network such that the attractor it reaches is of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Andrea Roli , Cristian Arcaroli , Marco Lazzarini , Stefano Benedettini

Correct inference of genetic regulations inside a cell is one of the greatest challenges in post genomic era for the biologist and researchers. Several intelligent techniques and models were already proposed to identify the regulatory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Sudip Mandal , Goutam Saha , Rajat K. Pal

Boolean automata networks (BANs) are a generalisation of Boolean cellular automata. In such, any theorem describing the way BANs compute information is a strong tool that can be applied to a wide range of models of computation. In this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Kévin Perrot , Pacôme Perrotin , Sylvain Sené

A efficient incremental learning algorithm for classification tasks, called NetLines, well adapted for both binary and real-valued input patterns is presented. It generates small compact feedforward neural networks with one hidden layer of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-04-30 Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno , Mirta B. Gordon

The theory of cellular automata in operational probabilistic theories is developed. We start introducing the composition of infinitely many elementary systems, and then use this notion to define update rules for such infinite composite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-09 Paolo Perinotti

We propose a probabilistic cellular automata model for the spread of innovations, rumors, news, etc. in a social system. The local rule used in the model is outertotalistic, and the range of interaction can vary. When the range R of the…

adap-org · Physics 2008-02-03 Henryk Fuks , Nino Boccara

Global dynamics of a non-linear Cellular Automata is, in general irregular, asymmetric and unpredictable as opposed to that of a linear CA, which is highly systematic and tractable. In the past efforts have been made to systematize…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-08-13 Sudhakar Sahoo , Pabitra Pal Choudhury , Mithun Chakraborty

Automata networks are mappings of the form f : Q Z $\rightarrow$ Q Z , where Q is a finite alphabet and Z is a set of entities; they generalise Cellular Automata and Boolean networks. An update schedule dictates when each entity updates its…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Florian Bridoux , Maximilien Gadouleau , Guillaume Theyssier

In decentralized optimization, nodes cooperate to minimize an overall objective function that is the sum (or average) of per-node private objective functions. Algorithms interleave local computations with communication among all or a subset…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , Michael G. Rabbat