Tomasz M. Gwizdałła (editor) - Cellular Automata: 14th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 2020, Lodz, Poland, December 2–4, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 12599)

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This volume contains a collection of original papers covering a variety of theoretical results and applications of cellular automata that were selected for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry ACRI 2020, held in d, Poland, December 24, 2020. The conference was organized by the Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics of the University of d. Its primary goal was to provide a forum to enable researchers from a large variety of scientific fields based on the Cellular Automata approach to establish and strengthen international collaborations in their research and spread information about their achievements among the scientific community.

The ACRI conference series was first organized in Italy, namely, ACRI 1994 in Rende, ACRI 1996 in Milan, ACRI 1998 in Trieste and followed by ACRI 2000 in Karlsruhe (Germany), ACRI 2002 in Geneva (Switzerland), ACRI 2004 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), ACRI 2006 in Perpignan (France), ACRI 2008 in Yokohama (Japan), ACRI 2010 in Ascoli Piceno (Italy), ACRI 2012 on Santorini (Greece), ACRI 2014 in Krakw (Poland), ACRI 2016 in Fez (Morocco), and ACRI 2018 in Como (Italy).

Cellular Automata offer a very powerful approach to the study of phenomena related to a large variety of problems. Initially presented as some form of counterpart or supplement to partial differential equations, they now enable us to study many real-world phenomena. Besides this practical significance, they often present behavior that is interesting from the theoretical point of view. For these reasons, CA became very popular for studying real applications. For many years researchers from academia and industry have used CA in many different fields dealing with theoretical as well as practical problems.

This 14th edition of ACRI was organized in an extraordinary situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which strongly limited the possibilities of direct interaction between researchers knowledge between experts in several scientific areas: pure and applied mathematics, computer science, physics, biology, and mathematical systems theory.

This volume contains the papers accepted for presentation during the online sessions and online poster sessions of the 14th ACRI conference. Each submission was the subject of a detailed and careful review carried out by at least two Program Committee members. Finally, the selected papers were organized only in the form of the main track. Despite this homogeneity, a lot of different topics, corresponding to the typical areas covered by previous editions of the ACRI conference, were raised during the event.

First of all, let us express our thanks to Jarkko Kari, who kindly accepted our invitation to give a plenary lecture at ACRI 2020. The regular papers presented during the conference were often a wide and interesting outgrowth of papers from former ACRI conferences covering the problems of control, asynchronous CA, or traffic, thus corresponding strictly to previous meetings' special sessions. We decided, however, to divide the accepted submissions into three parts according to rather to the general idea of particular papers.