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
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