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Dynamic properties of a one-dimensional probabilistic cellular automaton are studied by monte-carlo simulation near a critical point which marks a second-order phase transition from a active state to a effectively unique absorbing state.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Pratip Bhattacharyya

The emergence of complex behaviors in cellular automata is an area that has been widely developed in recent years with the intention to generate and analyze automata that produce space-moving patterns or gliders that interact in a periodic…

Classical cellular automata represent a class of explicit discrete spacetime lattice models in which complex large-scale phenomena emerge from simple deterministic rules. With the goal to uncover different physically distinct classes of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-27 Rustem Sharipov , Matija Koterle , Sašo Grozdanov , Tomaž Prosen

In this exploratory paper we introduce the problem of cognitive agents that learn how to modify their environment according to local sensing to reach a global goal. We concentrate on discrete dynamics (cellular automata) on a…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2026-04-14 Franco Bagnoli , Bassem Sellami , Amira Mouakher , Samira El Yacoubi

A cellular automata approach using a Directed Cyclic Graph is used to model interrelationships of fluctuating time, state and space. This model predicts phenomena including a constant and maximum speed at which any moving entity can travel,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Brown

We show that cellular automata can classify data by inducing a form of dynamical phase coexistence. We use Monte Carlo methods to search for general two-dimensional deterministic automata that classify images on the basis of activity, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Stephen Whitelam , Isaac Tamblyn

Probabilistic Cellular Automata are extended stochastic systems, widely used for modelling phenomena in many disciplines. The possibility of controlling their behaviour is therefore an important topic. We shall present here an approach to…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-03-07 Franco Bagnoli , Sara Dridi , Samira El Yacoubi , Raul Rechtman

Cellular automaton (CA) approach is an important theoretical framework for studying complex system behavior and has been widely applied in various research field. CA traffic flow models have the advantage of flexible evolution rules and…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2018-10-09 Junfang Tian , Chenqiang Zhu , Rui Jiang

We explore some aspects of phase transitions in cellular automata. We start recalling the standard formulation of statistical mechanics of discrete systems (Ising model), illustrating the Monte Carlo approach as Markov chains and stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-05 Franco Bagnoli , Raul Rechtman

We show that a large number of elementary cellular automata are computationally simple. This work is the first systematic classification of elementary cellular automata based on a formal notion of computational complexity. Thanks to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Pierre-Étienne Meunier

The complexity of cellular automata is traditionally measured by their computational capacity. However, it is difficult to choose a challenging set of computational tasks suitable for the parallel nature of such systems. We study the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Barbora Hudcová , Tomáš Mikolov

In order to develop systems capable of modeling artificial life, we need to identify, which systems can produce complex behavior. We present a novel classification method applicable to any class of deterministic discrete space and time…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2020-09-01 Barbora Hudcova , Tomas Mikolov

We extend Cellular Automata to time-varying discrete geometries. In other words we formalize, and prove theorems about, the intuitive idea of a discrete manifold which evolves in time, subject to two natural constraints: the evolution does…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Pablo Arrighi , Clément Chouteau , Stefano Facchini , Simon Martiel

We present applications of a cellular automaton approach to pedestrian dynamics introduced in [1,2]. It is shown that the model is able to reproduce collective effects and self-organization phenomena encountered in pedestrian traffic, e.g.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carsten Burstedde , Ansgar Kirchner , Kai Klauck , Andreas Schadschneider , Johannes Zittartz

We study self-similarity in one-dimensional probabilistic cellular automata (PCA) using the renormalization technique. We introduce a general framework for algebraic construction of renormalization groups (RG) on cellular automata and apply…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-22 Erik Edlund , Martin Nilsson Jacobi

Inspired by cellular growth and self-organization, Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) have been capable of "growing" artificial cells into images, 3D structures, and even functional machines. NCAs are flexible and robust computational systems…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Shyam Sudhakaran , Elias Najarro , Sebastian Risi

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

The expanding cellular automata (XCA) variant of cellular automata is investigated and characterized from a complexity-theoretical standpoint. An XCA is a one-dimensional cellular automaton which can dynamically create new cells between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Augusto Modanese

We study charge fluctuations of a family of stochastic charged cellular automata away from the deterministic single-file limit and obtain the exact typical charge probability distributions, known to be anomalous, using hydrodynamics. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-06 Takato Yoshimura , Žiga Krajnik

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