Detailed ACRI programme
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Before Wednesday at noon, the joint conference opened with its first half: ← AUTOMATA programme
The registration desk is open today between 13h30–15h00. Today's lunch is included for everyone. A group photo of all attendees (AUTOMATA & ACRI) is taken right after lunch, around 13h45.
Afternoon: 14h00—15h45
14h00
14h15
ACRI opening
The chair of this year's ACRI Organising Committee, Jan Baetens, welcomes the attendees.
14h15
15h15
Evolution and Complexity Growth of Artificial Life in Cellular Automata and Other Discrete Dynamical Systems
Hiroki Sayama
Invited Speaker (lecture only)
15h15
15h45
General control of linear cellular automata
Franco Bagnoli
Full Paper
Coffee break
Afternoon: 16h15—17h30
16h15
16h45
Remark on the effect of non-local perturbation in Elementary Cellular Automata
Souvik Roy Online
Full Paper
16h45
17h05
A simple strategy for constructing ultradiscrete systems that exhibit the same dynamics as a given continuous model
Ralph Willox
Exploratory Paper
17h05
17h25
On the transversals of Latin squares generated by nonlinear bipermutive cellular automata
Luca Mariot
Exploratory Paper
17h25
17h30
Buffer
A modest 5-minute buffer in case we are delayed.
19h30
Conference dinner
Brasserie Pakhuis, Schuurkenstraat 4, Ghent — for those who registered for the dinner.
Morning: 09h00—10h30
09h00
10h00
Applications of Cellular Automata in Unconventional Computing
Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas
Invited Speaker (lecture only)
10h00
10h30
Complexity of Fungal Automaton Prediction
Eric Goles
Full Paper
Coffee break
Morning: 11h00—13h00
11h00
11h30
Cellular Automata Rules Optimizing a Global Pattern Value
Rolf Hoffmann
Full Paper
11h30
12h00
Control of Cellular Automata by Mobile Agents with Reinforcement Learning
Franco Bagnoli
Full Paper
12h00
12h30
Computing Shortest Path In-memory with Cellular Automata
Sukanta Das
Full Paper
12h30
13h00
Buffer
An ample 30-minute buffer in case we are delayed, for checking your e-mails, or for expanding your network.
Lunch break
Afternoon: 14h00—15h00
14h00
14h30
Generation of Isomorphic Cellular Automata with Application to Data Classification
Kamalika Bhattacharjee
Full Paper
14h30
15h00
CA-Based Countermeasure for Ascon-128
Amit Sardar Online
Full Paper
Coffee break
Afternoon: 15h30—17h00
15h30
17h00
Hands-on Workshop on Recent Advances in Cellular Automata-Based Wildfire Simulation with Cell2Fire
Jaime Carrasco-Barra
Workshop
17h15
18h00
ACRI Steering Committee meeting
Members of the ACRI Steering Committee convene in the lecture room.
Morning: 09h00—10h30
09h00
10h00
Linking Sand, Plants and People: a Cellular Automata Framework for Understanding the Dynamics of Managed Beaches
Kathelijne Wijnberg
Invited Speaker (lecture only)
10h00
10h30
Emergence of Least Resistance Transportation Networks from Memristor-Based Cellular Automata
Theodoros Chatzinikolaou
Full Paper
Coffee break
Morning: 11h00—13h00
11h00
11h30
The MACCA-GW groundwater flow model: application to De Wilde Landen, the Netherlands
Michiel Rollier
Full Paper
11h30
12h00
A spatio-temporal RNN model for sea surface temperature forecasting
Kenza Benjelloun
Full Paper
12h00
12h30
Modeling Dispersive Shallow Water Wave Propagation Using a Cellular Automaton Based on the Peregrine System
Meryem El Habbazi
Full Paper
12h30
13h00
Buffer
An ample 30-minute buffer in case we are delayed, for checking your e-mails, or for expanding your network.
Lunch break
Afternoon: 14h00—15h00
14h00
14h30
Parsimonious revision protocol for Boolean networks: Application to osteogenesis
Alonso Espinoza
Full Paper
14h30
14h50
A Center-Based Model Reveals that Cell Shape Variability Drives Cell Sorting in Spheroids
Hannelore Van De Putte
Extended Abstract
14h50
15h00
ACRI closing
Some closing words by the Organising Committee.
Coffee break
This concludes ACRI. This first joint AUTOMATA & ACRI 2026 has now been completed — the Organising Committee wishes you a safe journey home.
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