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Translating partitioned cellular automata into classical type cellular automata
ISBN 978-5-94057-377-7International audiencePartitioned cellular automata are a variant of cellular automata that was defined in order to make it very simple to create complex automata having strong properties such as number conservation and reversibility (which are often difficult to obtain on cellular automata). In this article we show how a partitioned cellular automaton can be translated into a regular cellular automaton in such a way that these properties are conserved
MFCS\u2798 Satellite Workshop on Cellular Automata
For the 1998 conference on Mathematical Foundations of Computer
Science (MFCS\u2798) four papers on Cellular Automata were accepted as
regular MFCS\u2798 contributions. Furthermore an MFCS\u2798 satellite
workshop on Cellular Automata was organized with ten additional talks.
The embedding of the workshop into the conference with its
participants coming from a broad spectrum of fields of work lead to
interesting discussions and a fruitful exchange of ideas.
The contributions which had been accepted for MFCS\u2798 itself may be
found in the conference proceedings, edited by L. Brim, J. Gruska and
J. Zlatuska, Springer LNCS 1450. All other (invited and regular)
papers of the workshop are contained in this technical report. (One
paper, for which no postscript file of the full paper is available, is
only included in the printed version of the report).
Contents:
F. Blanchard, E. Formenti, P. Kurka: Cellular automata in the Cantor,
Besicovitch and Weyl Spaces
K. Kobayashi: On Time Optimal Solutions of the Two-Dimensional Firing
Squad Synchronization Problem
L. Margara: Topological Mixing and Denseness of Periodic Orbits for
Linear Cellular Automata over Z_m
B. Martin: A Geometrical Hierarchy of Graph via Cellular Automata
K. Morita, K. Imai: Number-Conserving Reversible Cellular Automata and
Their Computation-Universality
C. Nichitiu, E. Remila: Simulations of graph automata
K. Svozil: Is the world a machine?
H. Umeo: Cellular Algorithms with 1-bit Inter-Cell Communications
F. Reischle, Th. Worsch: Simulations between alternating CA,
alternating TM and circuit families
K. Sutner: Computation Theory of Cellular Automat
On Conservative and Monotone One-dimensional Cellular Automata and Their Particle Representation
Number-conserving (or {\em conservative}) cellular automata have been used in
several contexts, in particular traffic models, where it is natural to think
about them as systems of interacting particles. In this article we consider
several issues concerning one-dimensional cellular automata which are
conservative, monotone (specially ``non-increasing''), or that allow a weaker
kind of conservative dynamics. We introduce a formalism of ``particle
automata'', and discuss several properties that they may exhibit, some of
which, like anticipation and momentum preservation, happen to be intrinsic to
the conservative CA they represent. For monotone CA we give a characterization,
and then show that they too are equivalent to the corresponding class of
particle automata. Finally, we show how to determine, for a given CA and a
given integer , whether its states admit a -neighborhood-dependent
relabelling whose sum is conserved by the CA iteration; this can be used to
uncover conservative principles and particle-like behavior underlying the
dynamics of some CA. Complements at {\tt http://www.dim.uchile.cl/\verb'
'anmoreir/ncca}Comment: 38 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Theo. Comp. Sc. Several changes
throughout the text; major change in section 4.
On Factor Universality in Symbolic Spaces
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
attention in the literature. In this paper, we propose to study the factoring
relation up to rescalings, and ask for the existence of universal objects for
that simulation relation. In classical simulations of a system S by a system T,
the simulation takes place on a specific subset of configurations of T
depending on S (this is the case for intrinsic universality). Our setting,
however, asks for every configurations of T to have a meaningful interpretation
in S. Despite this strong requirement, we show that there exists a cellular
automaton able to simulate any other in a large class containing arbitrarily
complex ones. We also consider the case of subshifts and, using arguments from
recursion theory, we give negative results about the existence of universal
objects in some classes
A guided tour of asynchronous cellular automata
Research on asynchronous cellular automata has received a great amount of
attention these last years and has turned to a thriving field. We survey the
recent research that has been carried out on this topic and present a wide
state of the art where computing and modelling issues are both represented.Comment: To appear in the Journal of Cellular Automat
Universalities in cellular automata; a (short) survey
This reading guide aims to provide the reader with an easy access to the study of universality in the field of cellular automata. To fulfill this goal, the approach taken here is organized in three parts: a detailled chronology of seminal papers, a discussion of the definition and main properties of universal cellular automata, and a broad bibliography
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