Complex Systems

Founded by Stephen Wolfram in 1987 »
The original journal devoted to the science, mathematics and engineering of systems with simple components but complex overall behavior.

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Akiko Fukuda, Sennosuke Watanabe, Yuki Nishida and Junta Matsukidaira
Second-Order Three-Neighbor Number-Conserving Cellular Automata

Som Banerjee and Mamata Dalui
Characterization of Maximal Length Cellular Automata Using NSRTD

Kazuhiro Yokota
Elementary Cellular Automata for Reservoir Computing with Modest Resources

Mourad Charikhi
Strengthening the Common Neighbor Algorithm by the Degree of Importance of Nodes for Predicting Missing Links in Complex Networks

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