What Do We Mean by Asynchronous CA? A Reflection on Types and Effects of Asynchronicity

The aim of this paper is to introduce the problematics deriving from the adoption of an asynchronous CA model. First of all, several cellular automata update schemes and a tentative classification of such schemes are introduced. In order to study the effects of the different update schemes, we introduced a class of simple CA, called One Neighbor Binary Cellular Automata (1nCA). An overview of the general features of 1nCA is described, then the effects of six different updates schemes on all the class of 1nCA are described.

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