Abstract
We consider the asynchronous prediction problem for some automaton as the one consisting in determining, given an initial configuration, if there exists a non-zero probability that some selected site changes its state, when the network is updated picking one site at a time uniformly at random. We show that for the majority automaton, the asynchronous prediction problem is in NC in the two-dimensional lattice with von Neumann neighborhood. Later, we show that in three or more dimensions the problem is NP-Complete.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 104537 |
| Journal | Information and Computation |
| Volume | 274 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Asynchronous updating
- Bootstrap percolation
- Cellular automata
- Computational complexity
- Majority automata
- NP-Completeness
- Parallel algorithms
- Prediction problem