• DocumentCode
    3327419
  • Title

    Reliable cellular automata with self-organization

  • Author

    Gács, Peter

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Boston Univ., MA, USA
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    20-22 Oct 1997
  • Firstpage
    90
  • Lastpage
    99
  • Abstract
    In a noisy cellular automaton, even if it is infinite, it is non-trivial to keep a bit of information for more than a constant number of steps. A clever solution in 2 dimensions has been applied to a simple 3-dimensional fault-tolerant cellular automaton. This technique did not solve the following problems: remembering a bit of information in 1 dimension; computing in dimensions lower than 3, or with non-synchronized transitions. With a more complex technique using a hierarchy of simulations, we construct an asynchronous one-dimensional reliable cellular automaton, which is also “self-organizing”. This means that if the input information has constant size, the initial configuration can be homogenous: the hierarchy organizes itself. An application to information storage in positive-temperature Gibbs states is also given
  • Keywords
    cellular automata; fault tolerant computing; probabilistic automata; self-adjusting systems; Gibbs states; cellular automata; ergodicity; error-correction; fault tolerance; fault-tolerant cellular automaton; interacting particle system; noisy cellular automaton; probabilistic cellular automata; reliability; renormalization; self organization; self-organization; Automata; Circuit faults; Computational modeling; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Error probability; Fault tolerance; Integrated circuit noise; Redundancy; Storage automation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Foundations of Computer Science, 1997. Proceedings., 38th Annual Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Miami Beach, FL
  • ISSN
    0272-5428
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-8197-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SFCS.1997.646097
  • Filename
    646097