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Classical Cellular Automata (CCAs) are a powerful computational framework for modeling global spatio-temporal dynamics with local interactions. While CCAs have been applied across numerous scientific fields, identifying the local rule that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Faizal Hafiz , Amelia Kunze , Enrico Formenti , Davide La Torre

Cellular automata (CAs) are fully-discrete dynamical models that have received much attention due to the fact that their relatively simple setup can nonetheless express highly complex phenomena. Despite the model's theoretical maturity and…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-07-10 Michiel Rollier , Kallil M. C. Zielinski , Aisling J. Daly , Odemir M. Bruno , Jan M. Baetens

In cellular automata with memory, the unchanged maps of the conventional cellular automata are applied to cells endowed with memory of their past states in some specified interval. We implement Rule 30 automata with a majority memory and…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2010-11-23 Genaro J. Martinez , Andrew Adamatzky , Ramon Alonso-Sanz , J. C. Seck-Touh-Mora

A one-dimensional two-state number-conserving cellular automaton (NCCA) is a cellular automaton whose states are 0 or 1 and where cells take states 0 and 1 and updated their states by the rule which keeps overall sum of states constant. It…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2019-10-21 Gil-Tak Kong , Katsunobu Imai , Toru Nakanashi

A method for studying the qualitative dynamical properties of abstract computing machines based on the approximation of their program-size complexity using a general lossless compression algorithm is presented. It is shown that the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-01-24 Hector Zenil

The properties of two-state nearest-neighbour cellular automata (CA) that are capable of density classification are discussed. It is shown that these CA actually conserve the total density, rather than merely classifying it. This is also…

comp-gas · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Sukumar

This paper presents a novel approach to the description and understanding of two-dimensional binary cellular automata with the Moore neighborhood that preserve the number of active cells. Such dynamical systems are known to successfully…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-10 B. Wolnik , D. M. Falkiewicz , W. Bołt , A. Rutkowski , B. De Baets

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

The goal of this paper is to show why the framework of communication complexity seems suitable for the study of cellular automata. Researchers have tackled different algorithmic problems ranging from the complexity of predicting to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-06-22 Eric Goles , Pierre-Etienne Meunier , Ivan Rapaport , Guillaume Theyssier

We present Mass-Conserving Evolution (MaCE), a general method for implementing mass conservation in Cellular Automata (CA). MaCE is a simple evolution rule that can be easily 'attached' to existing CAs to make them mass-conserving, which…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-07-17 Vassilis Papadopoulos , Etienne Guichard

This paper introduces a simple formalism for dealing with deterministic, non- deterministic and stochastic cellular automata in an unified and composable manner. This formalism allows for local probabilistic correlations, a feature which is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Pablo Arrighi , Nicolas Schabanel , Guillaume Theyssier

The purpose of the present study is to search one-dimensional Cellular Automata (CA) rules which will solve the density classification task (DCT) perfectly. The mathematical analysis of number conserving functions over binary strings of…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-07-26 Suryakanta Pal , Sudhakar Sahoo , Birendra Kumar Nayak

Cellular automata with memory (CAM) are widely used in fields such as image processing, pattern recognition, simulation, and cryptography. The invertibility of CAM is generally considered to be chaotic. Paper [Invertible behavior in…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-06-11 Chen Wang , Xiang Deng , Chao Wang

The Reservoir Computing (RC) paradigm utilizes a dynamical system, i.e., a reservoir, and a linear classifier, i.e., a read-out layer, to process data from sequential classification tasks. In this paper the usage of Cellular Automata (CA)…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Stefano Nichele , Magnus S. Gundersen

Cellular automata provide a fascinating class of dynamical systems capable of diverse complex behavior. These include simplified models for many phenomena seen in nature. Among other things, they provide insight into self-organized…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-02-03 Michael Creutz

Cellular automata (CA) dynamics are ordered in terms of two global parameters, computable {\sl a priori} from the description of rules. While one of them (activity) has been used before, the second one is new; it estimates the average…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-22 P. -M. Binder

A cellular automaton is a deterministic and exactly computable dynamical system which mimics certain fundamental aspects of physical dynamics such as spatial locality and finite entropy. CA systems can be constructed which have additional…

comp-gas · Physics 2007-05-23 Norman Margolus

The control of chaotic systems implies inducing an unpredictable system to follow a desired trajectory using the smallest "force". In low-dimensional continuous systems, one method is that of reconstructing the tangent space, so that the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-02-03 Franco Bagnoli , Raul Rechtman

In this paper we review previous work and present new work concerning the relationship between dynamical systems theory and computation. In particular, we review work by Langton \cite{Langton90} and Packard \cite{Packard88} on the…

adap-org · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Mitchell , J. P. Crutchfield , P. T. Hraber

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…