On the collision-propagation and gather-update formulations of a cellular automata rule

Authors
  • A. Caiazzo
Publication date 2008
Host editors
  • H. Umeo
  • S. Morishita
  • K. Nishinari
  • T. Komatsuzaki
  • S. Bandini
Book title Cellular Automata
Book subtitle 8th International Conference on Cellular Aotomata for Reseach and Industry, ACRI 2008, Yokohama, Japan, September 23-26, 2008 : proceedings
ISBN
  • 9783540799917
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783540799924
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event 8th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Reseach and Industry (ACRI 2008), Yokohama, Japan
Pages (from-to) 144-151
Publisher Berlin: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract We consider two formulations of a cellular automata: the first one uses a gather-update paradigm and the second one a collision-propagation paradigm. We show the equivalence of both descriptions and, using the latter paradigm, we propose a simple way to define a Cellular Automata on a graph with arbitrary topology. Finally, we exploit the duality of formulation to reconsider the problem of characterizing invertible cellular automata.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at
Permalink to this page
Back