Skip to content

Workshop on Cellular Automata and Boolean Automata Networks

ACANCOS Workshop (part of UCNC 2026)

Scope of the workshop

The scope of the workshop is a friendly exchange of ideas between researchers in the areas of cellular automata, Boolean automata networks, and their applications in all areas of science and engineering.

The workshop will allow the presentation of completed works, work-in-progress, and new ideas to foster new developments and new collaborations.

Short abstracts on following topics are welcome:

  • Automata Networks
  • Cellular Automata
  • Automata Networks and Cellular Automata in practice: application scenarios

Invited Speakers

  • Jarkko Kari, Turku University, Finland
    "Relaxing Spatial Uniformity in Cellular Automata: Effects on Classical Theorems"
  • Luca Mariot, University of Twente, The Netherlands
    "Cellular Automata and Cryptography: Recent Advances and Open Problems"

Workshop Program

Monday June 22, 2026
14:00-14:10 Workshop opening
14:10-15:00 Jarkko Kari
"Relaxing Spatial Uniformity in Cellular Automata: Effects on Classical Theorems"
15:00-15:30 First Session
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Second Session
17:30-18:20 Luca Mariot
"Cellular Automata and Cryptography: Recent Advances and Open Problems"

First Session

  • Rocco Ascone, Pedro Montealegre and Martín Ríos-Wilson
    On the counting complexity of asynchronous threshold networks
  • Tommaso Paladini, Eva Tuba and Luca Mariot
    Self-Repairing Neural Networks based on Neural Cellular Automata

Second Session

  • Samuel Humeau and Kévin Perrot
    Easy and Hard Problems on Bounded-Degree Boolean Automata Networks
  • Firas Ben Ramdhane
    On the Dynamics of 2D Cellular Automata over Besicovitch and Weyl Spaces
  • Joanne Hall, Kerri Morgan, Stella Stylianou and Vindya Warnakulasooriyage
    Isotopic Latin Squares from Cellular Automata
  • Franco Bagnoli, Samira El Yacoubi, Bassem Sellami, Amira Mouakher and Sara Dridi
    Control theory of linear cellular automata
  • Rocco Ascone, Antonio E. Porreca and Marius Rolland
    Polynomial equations over bijective dynamical systems and their semiring extensions
  • Amelia Kunze, Enrico Formenti and Davide La Torre
    Convex Combination Operators on CAMs

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit short abstracts highlighting new research and/or research direction proposals. They should not exceed 2 pages including references.

Abstract must be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF) and must be formatted in the LNCS style. Authors using LaTeX can download the needed macros at Springer-Verlag site (LaTex style).

Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system at this link selecting Abstract for Workshop on Cellula Automata and Boolean Automata Networks as the paper category.

A special issue of the works presented at the workshop on an international journal is currently planned.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: May 25, 2026

Notifications will be sent on a rolling basis within a few days of submission, and in any case no later than May 28.