Title :
Reliable cellular automata with self-organization
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Boston Univ., MA, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Foundations of Computer Science, 1997. Proceedings., 38th Annual Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Miami Beach, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8197-7
DOI :
10.1109/SFCS.1997.646097