Two-dimensional traffic rules and the density classification problem

Autor:	Fatès, Nazim, Marcovici, Irène, Taati, Siamak
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Nonlinear Sciences - Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	The density classification problem is the computational problem of finding the majority in a given array of votes in a distributed fashion. It is known that no cellular automaton rule with binary alphabet can solve the density classification problem. On the other hand, it was shown that a probabilistic mixture of the traffic rule and the majority rule solves the one-dimensional problem correctly with a probability arbitrarily close to one. We investigate the possibility of a similar approach in two dimensions. We show that in two dimensions, the particle spacing problem, which is solved in one dimension by the traffic rule, has no cellular automaton solution. However, we propose exact and randomized solutions via interacting particle systems. We assess the performance of our models using numeric simulations. Comment: To appear in the proceedings of Automata 2016 http://automata2016.ini.uzh.ch/
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04402 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv