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Some Formal Properties of Asynchronous Cellular Automata

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Cellular Automata (ACRI 2010)

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We study the dynamical behaviour of asynchronous cellular automata by considering some formal properties of classical cellular automata and adapting them to the asynchronous case.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Viale Sarca 336, 20126, Milano, Italy

    Luca Manzoni

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  1. Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence Research Center, University of Milano-Bicocca, Viale Sarca 336, Milano, Italy

    Stefania Bandini , Sara Manzoni  & Giuseppe Vizzari ,  & 

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    Hiroshi Umeo

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Manzoni, L. (2010). Some Formal Properties of Asynchronous Cellular Automata. In: Bandini, S., Manzoni, S., Umeo, H., Vizzari, G. (eds) Cellular Automata. ACRI 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6350. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15979-4_44

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