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Control of Cellular Automata

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Deterministic cellular automata:

Discrete systems, defined on a lattice or on a graph, that evolve following the application of a deterministic function in parallel to all sites/nodes. They may constitute the discrete equivalent of partial differential equations.

Probabilistic cellular automata:

Extensions of deterministic cellular automata, where the evolution rule is defined (at least partially) in probabilistic terms. They may be considered as the discrete analogous of stochastic partial differential equations.

Boolean derivatives:

The extension of the derivative to Boolean functions. The derivative is one if the function varies when the variable does, and zero otherwise.

Master-slave synchronization:

A kind of synchronization mechanism among replicas of a dynamical system. One replica (the master) evolves freely in time and the other (the slave) is (partially) forced to follow the master.

All-or-none or pinching synchronization:

A kind of master-slave synchronization...

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Bagnoli, F., El Yacoubi, S., Rechtman, R. (2018). Control of Cellular Automata. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_710-1

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