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Wolfram has provided a qualitative classification of cellular automata(CA) rules according to which, there exits a class of CA rules (called Class 4) which exhibit complex pattern formation and long-lived dynamical activity (long…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Avinash Dhar , Porus Lakdawala , Gautam Mandal , Spenta R. Wadia

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) models are trainable variations of traditional Cellular Automata (CA). Emergent motion in the patterns created by NCA has been successfully applied to synthesize dynamic textures. However, the conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yitao Xu , Ehsan Pajouheshgar , Sabine Süsstrunk

One of the most important problems in contemporary science, and especially in biology, is to reveal mechanisms of pattern formation. On the level of biological tissues, patterns form due to interactions between cells. These interactions can…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2020-07-23 Manan'Iarivo Rasolonjanahary , Bakhtier Vasiev

There have been several highway traffic models proposed based on cellular automata. The simplest one is elementary cellular automaton rule 184. We extend this model to city traffic with cellular automata coupled at intersections using only…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2011-09-06 Carlos Gershenson , David A. Rosenblueth

We study the urban-scale macroscopic traffic flow in city networks. Star graph is considered as traffic network. Star graphs with controlled traffic flow are transformed to various cell-transmission graphs by using the cell transmission…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-12-10 Takashi Nagatani

Elementary cellular automata (ECA) present iconic examples of complex systems. Though described only by one-dimensional strings of binary cells evolving according to nearest-neighbour update rules, certain ECA rules manifest complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Matthew Ho , Andri Pradana , Thomas J. Elliott , Lock Yue Chew , Mile Gu

From the macroscopic viewpoint for describing the acceleration behavior of drivers, this letter presents a weighted probabilistic cellular automaton model (the WP model, for short) by introducing a kind of random acceleration probabilistic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 X. L. Li , H. Kuang , T. Song , S. Q. Dai , Z. P. Li

Cellular automata are a fundamental computational model with applications in mathematics, computer science, and physics. In this work, we explore the study of cellular automata to cases where the universe is a group, introducing the concept…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Tawfiq Hamed , Mohammad Saleh

Reversible Cellular Automata (RCA) are a physics-like model of computation consisting of an array of identical cells, evolving in discrete time steps by iterating a global evolution G. Further, G is required to be shift-invariant (it acts…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-01-27 Pablo Arrighi , Vincent Nesme

This paper studies complexity of recognition of classes of bounded configurations by a generalization of conventional cellular automata (CA) -- finite dynamic cellular automata (FDCA). Inspired by the CA-based models of biological and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Maxim Makatchev

This study addresses the challenge of estimating traffic states for road links. We propose an innovative approach that leverages partial trajectory data captured by camera-equipped probe vehicles traveling in the opposite lane. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Tanay Rastogi , Michele D. Simoni , Anders Karlström

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

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

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

In this paper we present two interesting properties of stochastic cellular automata that can be helpful in analyzing the dynamical behavior of such automata. The first property allows for calculating cell-wise probability distributions over…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Witold Bołt , Jan M. Baetens , Bernard DeBaets

Traffic flow modeling is typically performed at one of three different scales (microscopic, mesoscopic, or macroscopic), each with distinct modeling approaches. Recent works that attempt to merge models at different scales have yielded some…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-21 Zhaohui Yang , Kshitij Jerath

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 present a 2-dimensional cellular automaton model for the simulation of pedestrian dynamics. The model is extremely efficient and allows simulations of large crowds faster than real time since it includes only nearest-neighbour…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Schadschneider

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 automata have been useful artificial models for exploring how relatively simple rules combined with spatial memory can give rise to complex emergent patterns. Moreover, studying the dynamics of how rules emerge under artificial…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2014-07-11 Theodore P. Pavlic , Alyssa M. Adams , Paul C. W. Davies , Sara Imari Walker