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Analytic function of local rules of Elementary Cellular Automata

Yuhong Ruan, Anwei Li and Jing Huang

Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2015, vol. 258, issue C, 404-409

Abstract: Tabulation method is usually adopted to describe the mapping relation of the analytic function of the local rules of Cellular Automaton. Although tabulation method is quite suitable to describe the mapping relation among discrete variables, there are numerous if-else sentences for the state decision of independent variables in computer programming. In this paper, we define an analytic function of the local rules of an Elementary Cellular Automaton by constructing the recognition function of the states of the cell and the neighbors. Therefore, a huge number of calculations by if-else sentences are transferred to the function calculation due to the adoption of the function of the local rules during the evolution of the ECA. Finally, the simulation results show that the programming structure is optimized and the programming efficiency is enhanced. In addition, the proposed method can also be extended to other 2-state cellular automata.

Keywords: Elementary Cellular Automata; Local rules; Analytic function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2015.02.022

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