
Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems
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This volume contains 3 invited talks in full-paper length and 12 regularpapers, which were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 23submissions. The papers feature research on all fundamental aspects of cellular automata and related discrete complex systems and deal with the following topics: dynamical, topological, ergodic and algebraic aspects; algorithmic and complexity issues; emergent properties; formal language processing; symbolic dynamics; models of parallelism and distributed systems; timing schemes; phenomenological descriptions; scientific modeling; and practical applications.
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Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Organization
- Invited Talk Abstracts
- Automata, Semigroups and Dynamical Systems
- Propagation, Diffusion and Randomization in Cellular Automata
- What Automata Can Provide a Medium for Life?
- A Brief Tour of Theoretical Tile Self-Assembly
- Contents
- Invited Papers
- Propagation, Diffusion and Randomization in Cellular Automata
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Formal Definitions
- 2.1 Diamonds and Their Dynamics
- 2.2 Ergodic Dynamics
- 3 The Ideal World of 1D Abelian Linear Cellular Automata
- 3.1 A Characterization of Randomizing CA
- 3.2 Interesting Reversible Examples
- References
- What Automata Can Provide a Medium for Life?
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Some Historical Notes
- 3 Methodological Problems
- 3.1 von Neumann's Fixed-Point Trick
- 3.2 Computation Universality Is Not Enough
- 3.3 The Fragility of ``All Mine!''
- 4 Specific Ergodicity
- 5 Emergence
- 6 Life and Evolution
- 7 Conclusions
- References
- A Brief Tour of Theoretical Tile Self-Assembly
- References
- Regular Papers
- The Corona Limit of Penrose Tilings Is a Regular Decagon
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Corona Limit
- 3 Penrose Tilings
- 4 Growth Cellular Automaton on Penrose Tilings
- 5 Rhombus von Neumann Neighborhood Case
- 6 The Difference of Growth Speeds
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- The Group of Reversible Turing Machines
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Turing Machines and Their Generalization
- 1.2 Our Results and Comparisons with Other Groups
- 1.3 Preliminaries
- 2 Two Models for Turing Machine Groups
- 2.1 The Moving Head Model
- 2.2 The Moving Tape Model
- 2.3 The Uniform Measure and Reversibility
- 2.4 Classical Turing Machines
- 3 Properties of RTM and Interesting Subgroups
- 3.1 Local Permutations and Oblivious Turing Machines
- 3.2 Finite-State Automata
- 3.3 Elementary Turing Machines and the LEF Property of RTM
- 4 Computability Aspects
- 4.1 Basic Decidability Results
- 4.2 The Torsion Problem
- References
- Exact Discretization of 3-Speed Rational Signal Machines into Cellular Automata
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Definitions and Properties
- 3 Dynamics, Simulation and Normalization
- 4 Formal Discretization
- 5 Correctness
- 6 Conclusion
- References
- An ``almost dual'' to Gottschalk's Conjecture
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background
- 3 Post-surjectivity
- 4 Post-surjectivity on Sofic Groups
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- On Finite Monoids of Cellular Automata
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basic Results
- 3 The Structure of ICA(G
- A)
- 4 Generating Sets of of CA(G
- A)
- References
- Sum of Exit Times in Series of Metastable States in Probabilistic Cellular Automata
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Model
- 3 Metastable States and Main Results
- 3.1 Potential Theoretic Approach and Capacities
- 3.2 Series of Metastable States for PCA Without Self-interaction
- 4 Sketch of proof of Theorem3.1
- 4.1 Proof of Lemma3.5
- References
- Partial Reversibility of One-Dimensional Cellular Automata
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background
- 2.1 Basics
- 2.2 Partial Reversibility Classes
- 3 Reversibility Degree
- 3.1 Reappraisal of Relative Partial Reversibility in
- 3.2 Absolute Partial Reversibility
- 3.3 Partial Reversibility Degree of Individual Elementary Rules
- 4 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Two-Dimensional Traffic Rules and the Density Classification Problem
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basics
- 2.1 Setting
- 2.2 Presentation of the Problem
- 2.3 Known Results with Cellular Automata
- 3 Particle Systems Solutions to the Spacing Problem
- 3.1 Our Model of IPS
- 3.2 No Solution to the Strict Spacing Problem
- 3.3 An IPS that Synchronises Checkerboards
- 3.4 Glauber Dynamics
- 4 The Density Classification Problem on Finite Lattices
- 5 Some Questions
- References
- Constant Acceleration Theorem for Extended von Neumann Neighbourhoods
- 1 Definitions
- 1.1 Cellular Automata
- 1.2 Picture Recognition
- 2 Main Result
- References
- Shrinking and Expanding Cellular Automata
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basics
- 2.1 Standard CA
- 2.2 Shrinking and Expanding CA
- 3 Relating ATM Time to SXCA Time
- 4 Relating SXCA Time to TM Space
- 5 Conclusion and Outlook
- References
- An 8-State Simple Reversible Triangular Cellular Automaton that Exhibits Complex Behavior
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Elementary Triangular Partitioned Cellular Automata
- 3 RETPCA T0347 and Its Properties
- 3.1 Glider, Block, Fin, and Rotator in T0347
- 3.2 Changing the Move Direction of a Glider by Blocks
- 3.3 Glider Guns in T0347
- 4 T0347 is Computationally Universal
- 4.1 Showing Turing Universality of Reversible CA
- 4.2 Making Switch Gate and Inverse Switch Gate Modules in T0347
- 5 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Cellular Automata on Group Sets and the Uniform Curtis-Hedlund-Lyndon Theorem
- 1 Left Group Actions
- 2 Right Quotient Set Semi-Actions
- 3 Semi-Cellular and Cellular Automata
- 4 Invariance, Equivariance, Determination, and Composition of Global Transition Functions
- 5 Curtis-Hedlund-Lyndon Theorems
- 6 Invertibility
- References
- Author Index
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