Cellular Automata: 9th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 2010, Ascoli Piceno, Italy, September 21-24, . Computer Science and General Issues)

Thisvolumecollectsthepapersselectedforpresentationatthe9thInternational Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2010), held in Ascoli Piceno (Italy), September 21-24, 2010. ACRI conferences have been o?ering since 1994 a biennial scienti?c meeting to both scientists and innovation managersin academia and industriy to express and discuss their viewpoints on current and future trends, challenges, and sta- of-the-art solutions to various problems in the ?elds of arts, biology, chemistry, communication,ecology,economy,engineering,networks,physics, socialscience, and tra?c control. ACRI 2010 was organized by the Complex Systems and - ti?cial Intelligence (CSAI) research center of the University of Milano-Bicocca as a forum for the presentation and discussion of specialized results as well as general contributions to the growth of the cellular automata approach and its application. Cellular automata represent a very powerful approach to the study of spatio-temporal systems where complex phenomena are built up out of many simple localinteractions. The ACRI conferenceserieswas?rstorganizedin Italy (ACRI1994inRende,ACRI1996inMilan,andACRI1998inTrieste),andafter having moved to other Europeanand international settings, this year came back to Italy: ACRI 2000 in Karlsruhe (Germany), ACRI 2002 in Geneva (Switz- land), ACRI 2004 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), ACRI 2006 in Perpignan (France), and ACRI 2008 in Yokohama (Japan). In order to give a perspective in which both theoretical and applicational - pectsofcellularautomatacontributetothegrowthofthearea,thisbookmirrors the structure of the conference, groupingthe 74 papers into two main parts.

Theoretical Results on Cellular Automata.- Information Transfer among Coupled Random Boolean Networks.- Open Environment for 2d Lattice-Grain CA.- All-to-All Communication with CA Agents by Active Coloring and Acknowledging.- The Sandpile Model: Parallelization of Efficient Algorithms for Systems with Shared Memory.- Theory and Application of Equal Length Cycle Cellular Automata (ELCCA) for Enzyme Classification.- Cellular Automata Model for Size Segregation of Particles.- Convex Hulls on Cellular Automata.- Square Kufic Pattern Formation by Asynchronous Cellular Automata.- Modeling and Simulation with Cellular Automata.- Development and Calibration of a Preliminary Cellular Automata Model for Snow Avalanches.- Tracking Uncertainty in a Spatially Explicit Susceptible-Infected Epidemic Model.- A Proximal Space Approach for Embedding Urban Geography into CA Models.- Bone Remodelling: A Complex Automata-Based Model Running in BioShape.- CANv2: A Hybrid CA Model by Micro and Macro-dynamics Examples.- Simulation of Traffic Flow at a Signalised Intersection.- A Novel Method for Simulating Cancer Growth.- Towards Cellular Automata Football Models with Mentality Accounting.- The Complexity of Three-Dimensional Critical Avalanches.- Using Cellular Automata on a Graph to Model the Exchanges of Cash and Goods.- Montebello: A Metapopulation Based Model of Carcinogenesis.- CA Dynamics, Control and Synchronization.- Towards Generalized Measures Grasping CA Dynamics.- Synchronization and Control of Cellular Automata.- Discovery by Genetic Algorithm of Cellular Automata Rules for Pattern Reconstruction Task.- Addition of Recurrent Configurations in Chip Firing Games: Finding Minimal Recurrent Configurations with Markov Chains.- A Seven-State Time-Optimum Square Synchronizer.- Codes and Cryptography with Cellular Automata.- Null Boundary 90/150 Cellular Automata for Multi-byte Error Correcting Code.- Generating Cryptographically Suitable Non-linear Maximum Length Cellular Automata.- Chaotic Cellular Automata with Cryptographic Application.- d-Monomial Tests of Nonlinear Cellular Automata for Cryptographic Design.- Programmable Cellular Automata (PCA) Based Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Hardware Architecture.- Exhaustive Evaluation of Radius 2 Toggle Rules for a Variable-Length Cryptographic Cellular Automata-Based Model.- Cellular Automata and Networks.- Network Decontamination with Temporal Immunity by Cellular Automata.- Characterization of CA Rules for SACA Targeting Detection of Faulty Nodes in WSN.- Cellular Automata Applied in Remote Sensing to Implement Contextual Pseudo-fuzzy Classification.- Impact of Coupling of Distributed Denial of Service Attack with Routing on Throughput of Packet Switching Network.- CA-Based Hardware.- A Cellular Automata-Based Modular Lighting System.- Modeling and Programming Asynchronous Automata Networks: The MOCA Approach.- Efficient Circuit Construction in Brownian Cellular Automata Based on a New Building-Block for Delay-Insensitive Circuits.- A Cellular Automaton Controlled Shading for a Building Facade.- FPGA Design of a Cellular Automaton Model for Railway Traffic Flow with GPS Module.- ACA - Int. Workshop on Asynchronous CA.- What Do We Mean by Asynchronous CA? A Reflection on Types and Effects of Asynchronicity.- Parallel Composition of Asynchronous Cellular Automata Simulating Reaction Diffusion Processes.- Comparative Study of Parallel Algorithms for Asynchronous Cellular Automata Simulation on Different Computer Architectures.- Coxeter Groups and Asynchronous Cellular Automata.- Some Formal Properties of Asynchronous Cellular Automata.- A Study on the Automatic Generation of Asynchronous Cellular Automata Rules by Means of Genetic Algorithms.- C&CA - Int. Workshop on Crowds and CA.- Towards Patterns of Comfort: A Multilayered Model Based on Situated Multi-agent Systems.- A Pedestrian Movement Model That Takes into Account the Capacity Drop Phenomenon in the Motion of Crowd.- A Cellular Automaton Model for Crowd Evacuation and Its Auto-Defined Obstacle Avoidance Attribute.- A Learning Algorithm for the Simulation of Pedestrian Flow by Cellular Automata.- On Influencing of a Space Geometry on Dynamics of Some CA Pedestrian Movement Model.- The Dynamic Distance Potential Field in a Situation with Asymmetric Bottleneck Capacities.- Solving the Direction Field for Discrete Agent Motion.- Phase Coexistence in Congested States of Pedestrian Dynamics.- Stochastic Transition Model for Discrete Agent Movements.- Analysis of Obstacle Density Effect on Pedestrian Congestion Based on a One-Dimensional Cellular Automata.- Excluded Volume Effect in a Pedestrian Queue.- T&CA - Int. Workshop on Traffic and CA.- Simulation on Vehicle Emission by the Brake-Light Cellular Automata Model.- Bidirectional Traffic on Microtubules.- Cellular Automata for a Traffic Roundabout.- Cellular Automata for a Cyclic Bus.- Dynamics of a Tagged Particle in the Asymmetric Exclusion Process with Particlewise Disorder.- Chase and Escape in Groups.- A Velocity-Clearance Relation in the Rule-184 Cellular Automaton as a Model of Traffic Flow.- CA and MAS – With the NaSch as Example.- Productivity Enhancement through Lot Size Optimization.- Multilane Single GCA-w Based Expressway Traffic Model.- Properties of Cellular Automaton Model for On-ramp System.- Inversion of Flux between Zipper and Non-Zipper Merging in Highway Traffic.- Clustering and Transport Efficiency in Public Conveyance System.- Clusters in the Helbing’s Improved Model.- Phase Transitions in Cellular Automata for Cargo Transport and Kinetically Constrained Traffic.- A New Computational Methodology Using Infinite and Infinitesimal Numbers.- IWNC - Int. Workshop on Natural Computing.- Molecular Implementations of Cellular Automata.- Achieving Universal Computations on One-Dimensional Cellular Automata.