A survey of cellular automata: types, dynamics, non-uniformity and applications

K Bhattacharjee, N Naskar, S Roy, S Das - Natural Computing, 2020 - Springer
Cellular automata (CAs) are dynamical systems which exhibit complex global behavior from
simple local interaction and computation. Since the inception of cellular automaton (CA) by …

Swarm intelligence

G Beni - Complex Social and Behavioral Systems: Game …, 2020 - Springer
SI can be seen also as part of the broader field of computational intelligence (CI)(Keller et al.
2016), which comprises computational methods for problems not solvable by the first …

A guided tour of asynchronous cellular automata

N Fates - International Workshop on Cellular Automata and …, 2013 - Springer
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 …

A tutorial on elementary cellular automata with fully asynchronous updating: General properties and convergence dynamics

N Fatès - Natural Computing, 2020 - Springer
We present a panorama of the convergence properties of the 256 Elementary Cellular
Automata under fully asynchronous updating, that is, when only one cell is updated at each …

On the dynamical behaviour of linear higher-order cellular automata and its decidability

A Dennunzio, E Formenti, L Manzoni, L Margara… - Information …, 2019 - Elsevier
Higher-order cellular automata (HOCA) are a variant of cellular automata (CA) used in many
applications (ranging, for instance, from the design of secret sharing schemes to data …

Complexity of the dynamics of reaction systems

A Dennunzio, E Formenti, L Manzoni… - Information and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Reaction systems are discrete dynamical systems inspired by bio-chemical processes,
whose dynamical behaviour is expressed by set-theoretic operations on finite sets. Reaction …

[HTML][HTML] Computational complexity of finite asynchronous cellular automata

A Dennunzio, E Formenti, L Manzoni, G Mauri… - Theoretical Computer …, 2017 - Elsevier
Cellular Automata (CA) are a well-established bio-inspired model of computation that has
been successfully applied in several domains. In the recent years the importance of …

[HTML][HTML] Multidimensional cellular automata: closing property, quasi-expansivity, and (un) decidability issues

A Dennunzio, E Formenti, M Weiss - Theoretical Computer Science, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper we study the dynamics of D-dimensional cellular automata (CA) by considering
them as one-dimensional (1D) CA along some direction (slicing constructions). These …

Building prioritized pairwise interaction test suites with ant colony optimization

X Chen, Q Gu, X Zhang, D Chen - 2009 ninth international …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interaction testing offers a stable cost-benefit ratio in identifying faults. But in many testing
scenarios, the entire test suite cannot be fully executed due to limited time or cost. In these …

Chaos and ergodicity are decidable for linear cellular automata over (Z/mZ) n

A Dennunzio, E Formenti, D Grinberg, L Margara - Information Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
We prove that important properties describing complex behaviours as ergodicity, chaos,
topological transitivity, and topological mixing, are decidable for one-dimensional linear …